Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 220
... Italians , " that " In the modelling therefore of this Poem ... the Antients and Italians are rather follow'd , as of much more authority and fame . " It is not unreasonable , therefore , to expect to find in Italian drama of the ...
... Italians , " that " In the modelling therefore of this Poem ... the Antients and Italians are rather follow'd , as of much more authority and fame . " It is not unreasonable , therefore , to expect to find in Italian drama of the ...
Page 236
... Italian melodramma and oratorio until and during his visit to Italy . Samson Agonistes might well have existed as it is without these seventeenth - century Italian productions . One could with justification trace its antecedents from ...
... Italian melodramma and oratorio until and during his visit to Italy . Samson Agonistes might well have existed as it is without these seventeenth - century Italian productions . One could with justification trace its antecedents from ...
Page 237
... Italian poets and musicians who also subjected harmony to text . He was surely not only aware of the new Italian music that resulted from this aesthetic , but deeply interested in it . The form and plot of Comus indicate knowledge of ...
... Italian poets and musicians who also subjected harmony to text . He was surely not only aware of the new Italian music that resulted from this aesthetic , but deeply interested in it . The form and plot of Comus indicate knowledge of ...
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A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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