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 61
... sung " in a plain tune , easy both to be sung of those which have no art in singing , and understood of those which because they cannot read cannot sing with the rest of the church . " " Whitgift declared in his early controversy with ...
... sung " in a plain tune , easy both to be sung of those which have no art in singing , and understood of those which because they cannot read cannot sing with the rest of the church . " " Whitgift declared in his early controversy with ...
Page 218
... sung dramas of the time . Milton , through the Orpheus image , has again led the reader to the Italian musi- cal drama . In structure , mood , and subject as well , " Lycidas " suggests these musical productions , which Milton surely ...
... sung dramas of the time . Milton , through the Orpheus image , has again led the reader to the Italian musi- cal drama . In structure , mood , and subject as well , " Lycidas " suggests these musical productions , which Milton surely ...
Page 223
... sung and how much of it was sung . The English classical drama , it is true , was never con- cerned with music as an integral part of the play , but on the Continent , use of chorus was always closely bound up with that of music . Even ...
... sung and how much of it was sung . The English classical drama , it is true , was never con- cerned with music as an integral part of the play , but on the Continent , use of chorus was always closely bound up with that of music . Even ...
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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