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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... Renaissance , less by their scientific than by their humanistic aspects , and especially by Italian musical theories and practice , which , it seems to the present writer , were a determining factor in the composition of Comus and ...
... Renaissance , less by their scientific than by their humanistic aspects , and especially by Italian musical theories and practice , which , it seems to the present writer , were a determining factor in the composition of Comus and ...
Page 55
... Renaissance and beyond , ques- tions that plague the modern scholar who attempts to under- stand Renaissance attitudes toward music . The subject was discussed at length by Renaissance Neoplatonists in connec- tion with the causes of ...
... Renaissance and beyond , ques- tions that plague the modern scholar who attempts to under- stand Renaissance attitudes toward music . The subject was discussed at length by Renaissance Neoplatonists in connec- tion with the causes of ...
Page 289
... Renaissance , xi , 8 , 35 , 48 , 58 , 102 ff . , and passim . See also Beauty ; Love Newte , John , 71-73 Newton , Isaac , 104 , 140 Nicolson , Marjorie Hope , 243 ( 57 ) , 257 ( 11 ) , 259 ( 43 ) Nobili , Flaminio , 89 Norden , John ...
... Renaissance , xi , 8 , 35 , 48 , 58 , 102 ff . , and passim . See also Beauty ; Love Newte , John , 71-73 Newton , Isaac , 104 , 140 Nicolson , Marjorie Hope , 243 ( 57 ) , 257 ( 11 ) , 259 ( 43 ) Nobili , Flaminio , 89 Norden , John ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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