Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 133
... Passions of Saul himselfe , if the sound of the Harpe had not been quickned and enlived , as it were by a spirituall ... passion was love of God - all others must be subdued ; text was limited to scrip- tural subjects ; condemnation of ...
... Passions of Saul himselfe , if the sound of the Harpe had not been quickned and enlived , as it were by a spirituall ... passion was love of God - all others must be subdued ; text was limited to scrip- tural subjects ; condemnation of ...
Page 147
... passion moves in response to that represented by musical modes . Vincenzo Galilei insisted that it was the inevitable result of similar passion felt and projected by the performer . Ficino had written that Alexander was moved both ...
... passion moves in response to that represented by musical modes . Vincenzo Galilei insisted that it was the inevitable result of similar passion felt and projected by the performer . Ficino had written that Alexander was moved both ...
Page 196
... passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions , " this aloofness has been felt . One defense has been that Milton was not writing about the death of a friend , but about himself , his own ambitions , his own ...
... passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions , " this aloofness has been felt . One defense has been that Milton was not writing about the death of a friend , but about himself , his own ambitions , his own ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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