Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
|
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 71
Page 60
... afflicted ? let him pray . Is any merry ? let him sing psalms " ( James 5:13 ) . But St. Paul had implied that singing should be silent , with 43 the heart only : " And be not drunk 60 Musical Backgrounds for English Literature.
... afflicted ? let him pray . Is any merry ? let him sing psalms " ( James 5:13 ) . But St. Paul had implied that singing should be silent , with 43 the heart only : " And be not drunk 60 Musical Backgrounds for English Literature.
Page 61
... singing of psalms if they were sung " in a plain tune , easy both to be sung of those which have no art in singing , and understood of those which because they cannot read cannot sing with the rest of the church . " Whitgift declared ...
... singing of psalms if they were sung " in a plain tune , easy both to be sung of those which have no art in singing , and understood of those which because they cannot read cannot sing with the rest of the church . " Whitgift declared ...
Page 168
... singing of the Lady is " ravishing , " too , in an entirely acceptable sense , without any perceptible distinction in musical sound itself , in tempo , dynamics , pitch , harmonic texture , or style of singing . What then determines the ...
... singing of the Lady is " ravishing , " too , in an entirely acceptable sense , without any perceptible distinction in musical sound itself , in tempo , dynamics , pitch , harmonic texture , or style of singing . What then determines the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
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