Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 53
... heavenly joy and for the time in a manner severing it from the body . " " This translation of pagan " en- thusiasm " into " heavenly joy " reveals the second , even more influential , explanation of musical effects . Seventeenth ...
... heavenly joy and for the time in a manner severing it from the body . " " This translation of pagan " en- thusiasm " into " heavenly joy " reveals the second , even more influential , explanation of musical effects . Seventeenth ...
Page 66
... heavenly meditations , ” and to " raise the spirits to that excessive height , as the soule is almost ravished , and in an extasie " : Nor is Musicke ... onely powerful ; as , to dispossesse us of evill affections , and such like : but ...
... heavenly meditations , ” and to " raise the spirits to that excessive height , as the soule is almost ravished , and in an extasie " : Nor is Musicke ... onely powerful ; as , to dispossesse us of evill affections , and such like : but ...
Page 107
... heavenly body has the character of the god whose name it bears , and sounds a music that possesses his characteristics . The music of the sun was thought to be grave and earnest , that of Venus volup- tuous . " Saturn , Mars , and the ...
... heavenly body has the character of the god whose name it bears , and sounds a music that possesses his characteristics . The music of the sun was thought to be grave and earnest , that of Venus volup- tuous . " Saturn , Mars , and 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