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 7
... elements of the universe , and on another of the four elements , the four temperaments , and the four humors of the human body . There was a further parallel with the four faculties of the soul . The treble string corresponded to fire ...
... elements of the universe , and on another of the four elements , the four temperaments , and the four humors of the human body . There was a further parallel with the four faculties of the soul . The treble string corresponded to fire ...
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... elements of the universe and of man as strings of an instrument also influenced the Elizabethan " world picture . ' Christian writers of following centuries accepted these theories along with the speculative thinking of the early Greeks ...
... elements of the universe and of man as strings of an instrument also influenced the Elizabethan " world picture . ' Christian writers of following centuries accepted these theories along with the speculative thinking of the early Greeks ...
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... elements with which the alchemist worked and the projecting rays of the planets , which the astrologer believed dominated the lives of men , might be arranged according to musical pro- portions . 59 As a result of a mystical ...
... elements with which the alchemist worked and the projecting rays of the planets , which the astrologer believed dominated the lives of men , might be arranged according to musical pro- portions . 59 As a result of a mystical ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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Adonis ancient Aristotle ayre beauty Ben Jonson body breath catena d'Adone celestial century chap choral chorus church classical Comus concord cosmic d'Orfeo dance demons divine doth ecstasy effects Elizabethan emblem emotions Falsirena Ficino George Wither Greek harmony harp heart heaven heavenly Henry ibid idea imagery imagined influence instrumental music Italian John Donne John Milton Jonson lines Loeb London lute Lycidas magic masque melodramma melody ment metaphysical Milton mind monody motion move musical drama musical instruments musical sound musician nature Neoplatonic Neoplatonists oratorio organ Orpheus Oxford Passions pastoral Phineas Fletcher Plato Plotinus poem poet Poetical poetry proportion Puritan Pythagorean ravish recitative Renaissance rhythm Robert Fludd Rome Samson Agonistes sense seventeenth-century singing sixteenth song soul speech stanza Stefano Landi strings style sung sweet theory things Thomas Thomas Campion thought Timaeus tion tune universe verse voice voyce words world spirit writers wrote