Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 56
... century B.C. ) argued that music has no influence on the movements of the soul , that only words and actions have moral value.26 Skeptics , like Sextus Empiricus in the third century ( as Lactantius later ) , declared that music is ...
... century B.C. ) argued that music has no influence on the movements of the soul , that only words and actions have moral value.26 Skeptics , like Sextus Empiricus in the third century ( as Lactantius later ) , declared that music is ...
Page 220
... century these evidences of classical usage to which he referred . When he went on to explain the stanzaic form of his choruses as being monostrophic— “ without regard had to Strophe , Anti- strophe or Epod " he wrote of stylistic ...
... century these evidences of classical usage to which he referred . When he went on to explain the stanzaic form of his choruses as being monostrophic— “ without regard had to Strophe , Anti- strophe or Epod " he wrote of stylistic ...
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... century , he could not have singled out Italian drama as unique , for between 1550 and 1590 , Etienne Jodelle and Robert Garnier in France were writing tragedies at least as much after the Greek manner as those of Tasso and Guarini ...
... century , he could not have singled out Italian drama as unique , for between 1550 and 1590 , Etienne Jodelle and Robert Garnier in France were writing tragedies at least as much after the Greek manner as those of Tasso and Guarini ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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