Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 131
... style gave to the poet who had musical setting in mind unprecedented freedom in composition and in subject . At few other times in history have words so predominated over music . Musical form was in fact dictated by literary ...
... style gave to the poet who had musical setting in mind unprecedented freedom in composition and in subject . At few other times in history have words so predominated over music . Musical form was in fact dictated by literary ...
Page 136
... style . It is probably not possible to arrive at proved conclusions , for much of the music , for masques at least , is lost — an indi- cation in itself of the value placed on verse over that assigned to music . One may surmise ...
... style . It is probably not possible to arrive at proved conclusions , for much of the music , for masques at least , is lost — an indi- cation in itself of the value placed on verse over that assigned to music . One may surmise ...
Page 218
... style . A music scholar , Johann Alstedt , explained in a work first published in 1611 that " melodie is simple or compounded . That is called Monodie , this Symphony . " His entire em- phasis is on musical composition . In Italy , the ...
... style . A music scholar , Johann Alstedt , explained in a work first published in 1611 that " melodie is simple or compounded . That is called Monodie , this Symphony . " His entire em- phasis is on musical composition . In Italy , the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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