Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 10
... senses emblematically as strings of a viol when he speaks of Antiochus ' daughter : You are a fair viol , and your sense the strings , Who , finger'd to make man his lawful music , Would draw heaven down and all the gods , to hearken ...
... senses emblematically as strings of a viol when he speaks of Antiochus ' daughter : You are a fair viol , and your sense the strings , Who , finger'd to make man his lawful music , Would draw heaven down and all the gods , to hearken ...
Page 85
... sense organ to other parts of the body , to carry qualities of the sender . Ficino sometimes wrote of the spirits going out of the sense organ to receive the sense image , but in the De amore he described the image of beauty entering ...
... sense organ to other parts of the body , to carry qualities of the sender . Ficino sometimes wrote of the spirits going out of the sense organ to receive the sense image , but in the De amore he described the image of beauty entering ...
Page 145
... sense , which was commonly located in the fore part of the brain , unified the variety of impressions carried to it by the spirits . These impressions , gradually freed of matter ( in which he showed no interest ) , were presented to ...
... sense , which was commonly located in the fore part of the brain , unified the variety of impressions carried to it by the spirits . These impressions , gradually freed of matter ( in which he showed no interest ) , were presented to ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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Adonis ancient Aristotle ayre beauty Ben Jonson body breath catena d'Adone celestial century chap choral chorus church classical Comus concord cosmic d'Orfeo dance demons divine doth ecstasy effects Elizabethan emblem emotions Falsirena Ficino George Wither Greek harmony harp heart heaven heavenly Henry ibid idea imagery imagined influence instrumental music Italian John Donne John Milton Jonson La favola d'Orfeo lines Loeb London lute Lycidas masque melodramma melody ment metaphysical Milton mind monody motion move musical drama musical instruments musical sound musician nature Neoplatonic Neoplatonists oratorio organ Orpheus Oxford passion pastoral Phineas Fletcher Plato Plotinus poem poet Poetical poetry proportion Puritan Pythagorean ravish recitative Renaissance rhythm Robert Fludd Rome Samson Agonistes sense seventeenth-century singing song soul speech stanza Stefano Landi strings style sung sweet theory things Thomas Thomas Campion thought tion tune universe verse voice voyce words world spirit writers wrote