Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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... cosmic implications . " Wherefore well sayd Dorilaus the Philosopher , That the World is Gods Organe , " wrote the sixteenth - century scholar , Ornithopar- cus , in a triumphant climax to his statement of Boethius ' three musical ...
... cosmic implications . " Wherefore well sayd Dorilaus the Philosopher , That the World is Gods Organe , " wrote the sixteenth - century scholar , Ornithopar- cus , in a triumphant climax to his statement of Boethius ' three musical ...
Page 58
... cosmic implications of " num- bers . " 37 In terms of music the late medieval mystic , under Plotinian influence , attempted to describe the cosmic rhythm of the universe and his own union with God . " There are three kinds of music ...
... cosmic implications of " num- bers . " 37 In terms of music the late medieval mystic , under Plotinian influence , attempted to describe the cosmic rhythm of the universe and his own union with God . " There are three kinds of music ...
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... cosmic spirit . As in the poetry of Lapo Gianni or of Cavalcanti in the thirteenth century , " the bodily spirits corresponded to the spirits which moved the cosmic organism , the angelic substances in the sky . ” The lady was of the ...
... cosmic spirit . As in the poetry of Lapo Gianni or of Cavalcanti in the thirteenth century , " the bodily spirits corresponded to the spirits which moved the cosmic organism , the angelic substances in the sky . ” The lady was of the ...
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