Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650Rutgers University Press, 1962 - 292 pages The author traces the history of metaphysical ideas about music and explores the place of these in the poetry of Milton. |
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... Plato , may have a vision of the divine . Plotinus , however , gave to actual melodies and rhythms , as Plato had not , a function in this ascent . According to Plotinus , the aim of man must be to raise his soul to the " Primal ...
... Plato , may have a vision of the divine . Plotinus , however , gave to actual melodies and rhythms , as Plato had not , a function in this ascent . According to Plotinus , the aim of man must be to raise his soul to the " Primal ...
Page 127
... Plato in The Republic : music is a combination of words and harmony and rhythm . But what is the meaning of ... Plato , that the world is composed of it . But let us come to the particular and treat of the harmony of music as ...
... Plato in The Republic : music is a combination of words and harmony and rhythm . But what is the meaning of ... Plato , that the world is composed of it . But let us come to the particular and treat of the harmony of music as ...
Page 258
... Plato , Symposium , 211C , Loeb ed . , p . 207 and passim . 29. Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium , Third Speech , chap . I , and First Speech , chap III , pp . 148 , 128. Ficino's Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de ...
... Plato , Symposium , 211C , Loeb ed . , p . 207 and passim . 29. Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium , Third Speech , chap . I , and First Speech , chap III , pp . 148 , 128. Ficino's Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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