Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 181
... Falsirena about a beautiful youth who is lost in the forest , and Falsirena , as Adonis approaches , feels , as Comus does at the approach of the Lady , " the different pace " of an alien personality , and she asks , as Comus asks ...
... Falsirena about a beautiful youth who is lost in the forest , and Falsirena , as Adonis approaches , feels , as Comus does at the approach of the Lady , " the different pace " of an alien personality , and she asks , as Comus asks ...
Page 184
... Falsirena's setting out to ensnare Adonis ( a section appreciably longer in Comus than in La catena ) . The temptation of the captive by the enchanter and the vanquishing of the latter is prefaced in La catena d'Adone by another song on ...
... Falsirena's setting out to ensnare Adonis ( a section appreciably longer in Comus than in La catena ) . The temptation of the captive by the enchanter and the vanquishing of the latter is prefaced in La catena d'Adone by another song on ...
Page 185
... Falsirena and her descent to the realms of Pluto- material included by Milton in the first entrance of Comus and in the descriptions of him by the attendant Spirit- and a further attempt by Falsirena to seduce Adonis . Both dramas end ...
... Falsirena and her descent to the realms of Pluto- material included by Milton in the first entrance of Comus and in the descriptions of him by the attendant Spirit- and a further attempt by Falsirena to seduce Adonis . Both dramas end ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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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 La favola d'Orfeo lines Loeb London lute Lycidas masque melodramma melody ment metaphysical Milton mind monody motion move musical drama musical instruments musical sound musician nature Neoplatonic Neoplatonists oratorio organ Orpheus Oxford passion 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 song soul speech stanza Stefano Landi strings style sung sweet theory things Thomas Thomas Campion thought tion tune universe verse voice voyce words world spirit writers wrote