Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 57
... music accompanied by words , not for instrumental music . The church leader feared the enticements of musical sound and often qualified his recommendations of it with warning of its dangers . Not instruments , but the Word of God , has ...
... music accompanied by words , not for instrumental music . The church leader feared the enticements of musical sound and often qualified his recommendations of it with warning of its dangers . Not instruments , but the Word of God , has ...
Page 66
... music was legitimate , but that music itself , by its very nature , possessed power to elevate the soul of man , those who required " the abrogation of instrumental music , approving nevertheless the use of vocal melody to remain ...
... music was legitimate , but that music itself , by its very nature , possessed power to elevate the soul of man , those who required " the abrogation of instrumental music , approving nevertheless the use of vocal melody to remain ...
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... Instrumental Musick.69 On the one hand , then , the supporter of church music— usually of the conservative church party - insisted that music is in its nature divine , that it is , as he so often said , “ a gift of God . " For his ...
... Instrumental Musick.69 On the one hand , then , the supporter of church music— usually of the conservative church party - insisted that music is in its nature divine , that it is , as he so often said , “ a gift of God . " For his ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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