Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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... monody . " The term is often dismissed today as a purely literary one . But it was used in the seventeenth century quite as often ( as indeed it is today ) to denote a musical style . A music scholar , Johann Alstedt , explained in a ...
... monody . " The term is often dismissed today as a purely literary one . But it was used in the seventeenth century quite as often ( as indeed it is today ) to denote a musical style . A music scholar , Johann Alstedt , explained in a ...
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... monody in both the literary and musical senses . It is rooted in the classical traditions of the past , but shaped to the broad formal pattern of the musical productions of its own time . " In this Monody the Author bewails a learned ...
... monody in both the literary and musical senses . It is rooted in the classical traditions of the past , but shaped to the broad formal pattern of the musical productions of its own time . " In this Monody the Author bewails a learned ...
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... monody " O dark , dark , dark ... , ” intro- duced with a change in verse form which in Italian musical drama indicated the entrance of a solo voice , is paralleled also in the ancient monody . The use of semichorus has actually no ...
... monody " O dark , dark , dark ... , ” intro- duced with a change in verse form which in Italian musical drama indicated the entrance of a solo voice , is paralleled also in the ancient monody . The use of semichorus has actually no ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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