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 53
... harmony resulting from tuning of the body , he did , nonetheless , in the Timaeus , define soul as harmony in another sense . God , through reason , he wrote , brought the matter of chaos into mathematical harmony and proportion , and ...
... harmony resulting from tuning of the body , he did , nonetheless , in the Timaeus , define soul as harmony in another sense . God , through reason , he wrote , brought the matter of chaos into mathematical harmony and proportion , and ...
Page 65
... harmony it is allured by the harmony of music , but rather that because the soul is allured by music " some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony . " He leaned heavily on Aristotle's ...
... harmony it is allured by the harmony of music , but rather that because the soul is allured by music " some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony . " He leaned heavily on Aristotle's ...
Page 124
... harmony , and whatever harmony images the divine , possesses the power , so often attributed to it in the Renais- sance , not only to infuse life but to draw soul from body as in an ecstasy . Singing thus had twofold value : harmony ...
... harmony , and whatever harmony images the divine , possesses the power , so often attributed to it in the Renais- sance , not only to infuse life but to draw soul from body as in an ecstasy . Singing thus had twofold value : harmony ...
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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