Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 102
... demons and magic are not necessarily evil . At all events , Orpheus and Arion demon- strated that music not only could cause ecstatic death , but could restore life , and the Renaissance philosopher was not one to let such a miracle go ...
... demons and magic are not necessarily evil . At all events , Orpheus and Arion demon- strated that music not only could cause ecstatic death , but could restore life , and the Renaissance philosopher was not one to let such a miracle go ...
Page 110
... demonic magic ” — “ black_magic ” —a practice condemned by the Church , for there was always the danger that bad demons as well as good might be invoked . The air was thought to be full of spirits which could course through the spirits ...
... demonic magic ” — “ black_magic ” —a practice condemned by the Church , for there was always the danger that bad demons as well as good might be invoked . The air was thought to be full of spirits which could course through the spirits ...
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... demons , in the tradition of the Asclepius , but to create them . Sounds them- selves became demons . Ficino's warm and living air took on the shape of demons , which possibly were conceived of , writes D. P. Walker , as " separate ...
... demons , in the tradition of the Asclepius , but to create them . Sounds them- selves became demons . Ficino's warm and living air took on the shape of demons , which possibly were conceived of , writes D. P. Walker , as " separate ...
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