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 86
... music's power to induce physical love and to produce other effects , as will be seen in later chapters . One statement , in a letter to Antonio Canisiano , is in medical context and describes not the effect of sound alone , but of music ...
... music's power to induce physical love and to produce other effects , as will be seen in later chapters . One statement , in a letter to Antonio Canisiano , is in medical context and describes not the effect of sound alone , but of music ...
Page 139
Gretchen Ludke Finney. ici CHAPTER VII Music and Air : Changing Definitions of Sound HE power of harmony was brought into question by other Tinfluences than those exerted by poets and musicians . More scientific analyses of sound also ...
Gretchen Ludke Finney. ici CHAPTER VII Music and Air : Changing Definitions of Sound HE power of harmony was brought into question by other Tinfluences than those exerted by poets and musicians . More scientific analyses of sound also ...
Page 143
... sound then , not air , that is significant.18 When Ficino said that “ song ... musical and medical studies.19 Even Ficino , however , did not completely ... musical sound " by the movement of the air " excites the spirits and at the same ...
... sound then , not air , that is significant.18 When Ficino said that “ song ... musical and medical studies.19 Even Ficino , however , did not completely ... musical sound " by the movement of the air " excites the spirits and at the same ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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