Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 68
... things , which is a task for our intellectual powers alone ; that over - complicated music " leaves the spirituall faculties un- touch'd " ; and that the ideal lies in " a sober mediocritie and grave mixture of Tune with Ditty . " It is ...
... things , which is a task for our intellectual powers alone ; that over - complicated music " leaves the spirituall faculties un- touch'd " ; and that the ideal lies in " a sober mediocritie and grave mixture of Tune with Ditty . " It is ...
Page 73
... Things ? Or why should they deny the Experience of so many Heathens , who ... receiv'd the same Practice of Instrumental Musick on account of the Devotion they pretended to feel rais'd in themselves by it , in their several false ...
... Things ? Or why should they deny the Experience of so many Heathens , who ... receiv'd the same Practice of Instrumental Musick on account of the Devotion they pretended to feel rais'd in themselves by it , in their several false ...
Page 77
... things and made them " pregnant still with powrefull grace . " The earthly counterpart of Love governed man , giving him life and fertility and attracting him to others of his kind . By " sympathy , " a manifestation of love , all things ...
... things and made them " pregnant still with powrefull grace . " The earthly counterpart of Love governed man , giving him life and fertility and attracting him to others of his kind . By " sympathy , " a manifestation of love , all things ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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