Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 136
... masques and ' operas ' performed during the Commonwealth was literary and not musical . " Even English ... masque , Loves Triumph , which was probably influenced by Italian style and which has two stanzas of different verse ...
... masques and ' operas ' performed during the Commonwealth was literary and not musical . " Even English ... masque , Loves Triumph , which was probably influenced by Italian style and which has two stanzas of different verse ...
Page 137
... Masque at White - hall , anno 1633 , " reveals similar influence . The argumentative tone , the speech rhythms , the broken lines , could not have been set by the regular rhythms and strophic form of the ayre : Quest . By what power was ...
... Masque at White - hall , anno 1633 , " reveals similar influence . The argumentative tone , the speech rhythms , the broken lines , could not have been set by the regular rhythms and strophic form of the ayre : Quest . By what power was ...
Page 176
... masque , and , in spite of lovely lyric pas- sages , not , one would suppose , the sort of work with which Milton , as an ambitious poet , would have been content . Comus is a drama , “ complete and of a certain magnitude ...
... masque , and , in spite of lovely lyric pas- sages , not , one would suppose , the sort of work with which Milton , as an ambitious poet , would have been content . Comus is a drama , “ complete and of a certain magnitude ...
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