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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... according to " harmonical " law . Boethius , whose De institutione musica furnished the authoritative theoretical text for more than a thousand years , crystallized this scheme of cosmic musical parallels by desig- nating three kinds of ...
... according to " harmonical " law . Boethius , whose De institutione musica furnished the authoritative theoretical text for more than a thousand years , crystallized this scheme of cosmic musical parallels by desig- nating three kinds of ...
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... according as its spirit is " tenuous and asperous " : " For every Sound besides the length thereof , is also tenuous or gentle , flat , submiss , small ; or sharp , harsh , clear , full , as consisting of a tenuous and asperous Spirit ...
... according as its spirit is " tenuous and asperous " : " For every Sound besides the length thereof , is also tenuous or gentle , flat , submiss , small ; or sharp , harsh , clear , full , as consisting of a tenuous and asperous Spirit ...
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... According to Giovanni Maria Lanfranco in Scintille di musica ( Brescia , 1533 ) , quoted by Gerald R. Hayes , Musical Instru- ments and their Music , 1500–1750 ( London , 1928- ) , II , 142 , the sixteenth - century instrument , the ...
... According to Giovanni Maria Lanfranco in Scintille di musica ( Brescia , 1533 ) , quoted by Gerald R. Hayes , Musical Instru- ments and their Music , 1500–1750 ( London , 1928- ) , II , 142 , the sixteenth - century instrument , the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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