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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Page 178
... classical style of the early Florentine sung drama , with its preponderance of recitative and its serious plot , by the introduction of the songs , dances , and spectacle which had hitherto been characteristic of the intermedio . The ...
... classical style of the early Florentine sung drama , with its preponderance of recitative and its serious plot , by the introduction of the songs , dances , and spectacle which had hitherto been characteristic of the intermedio . The ...
Page 197
... classical models , or was he , to the contrary , defying formalities ? " Lycidas cannot be dissected without a knowledge of the Italian poetry of the sixteenth century , " writes a recent critic , " but it must be said that there is no ...
... classical models , or was he , to the contrary , defying formalities ? " Lycidas cannot be dissected without a knowledge of the Italian poetry of the sixteenth century , " writes a recent critic , " but it must be said that there is no ...
Page 224
... classical dramatic practice came to the considered conclusion that Greek drama was entirely sung . It is only to be expected , then , that in Italy there should have been renewed interest in chorus . In drama com- pletely sung , chorus ...
... classical dramatic practice came to the considered conclusion that Greek drama was entirely sung . It is only to be expected , then , that in Italy there should have been renewed interest in chorus . In drama com- pletely sung , chorus ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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