Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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... oratorio , one of the most popular musical attractions in Rome when Milton was there . The oratorio is a tempting field for a student of Samson Agonistes , because the Samson story was a favorite one for writers of oratorio from its ...
... oratorio , one of the most popular musical attractions in Rome when Milton was there . The oratorio is a tempting field for a student of Samson Agonistes , because the Samson story was a favorite one for writers of oratorio from its ...
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... oratorios , is of interest here because of its classical use of chorus.38 40 One of the most interesting examples of seventeenth- century oratorio , which shows many of the classical influ- ences of sung drama , is actually based on the ...
... oratorios , is of interest here because of its classical use of chorus.38 40 One of the most interesting examples of seventeenth- century oratorio , which shows many of the classical influ- ences of sung drama , is actually based on the ...
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... oratorio musicale in Italia ( Turin , 1908 ) . As evidence of the seventeenth - century classifi- cation of oratorio as drama one may point out the comments of so able a judge as Arcangelo Spagna . In his Oratorii overo melodrammi sacri ...
... oratorio musicale in Italia ( Turin , 1908 ) . As evidence of the seventeenth - century classifi- cation of oratorio as drama one may point out the comments of so able a judge as Arcangelo Spagna . In his Oratorii overo melodrammi sacri ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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