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 87
Gretchen Ludke Finney. Musical sound ... conveys as if animated , the emotions and thoughts of the singer's of ... emotion to another , as legend relates.3 Music , as Ficino analyzed it , does not lead to elevation or to divine love ...
Gretchen Ludke Finney. Musical sound ... conveys as if animated , the emotions and thoughts of the singer's of ... emotion to another , as legend relates.3 Music , as Ficino analyzed it , does not lead to elevation or to divine love ...
Page 129
... emotion , he turned to writings of the great orators . ( Musician learned from orator , not orator from music . ) The objectives of the orator and of the singer were the same — to excite emotions . The " sole aim " of contrapuntal music ...
... emotion , he turned to writings of the great orators . ( Musician learned from orator , not orator from music . ) The objectives of the orator and of the singer were the same — to excite emotions . The " sole aim " of contrapuntal music ...
Page 155
... emotions . " 46 These attempts at reconciliation had little effect . The as- sumption established by Ficino , that music , by motion of the Sum air , moves the spirits , that , as Scaliger added , it rouses emo- tions independently of ...
... emotions . " 46 These attempts at reconciliation had little effect . The as- sumption established by Ficino , that music , by motion of the Sum air , moves the spirits , that , as Scaliger added , it rouses emo- tions independently of ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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