Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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... tune by Adam who .. being chief of all the strings Of this large Lute , o'r - retched , quickly brings All out of tune.32 John Donne imagined the broken string of this once - perfect lute replaced by the Messiah : " We may say the ...
... tune by Adam who .. being chief of all the strings Of this large Lute , o'r - retched , quickly brings All out of tune.32 John Donne imagined the broken string of this once - perfect lute replaced by the Messiah : " We may say the ...
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... tune , we do not presently breake all the strings , but reduce and tune those , which are out of tune . ' 50 From the book of music Renaissance man learned many things about those " sweet Societies that sing " in Paradise and about ...
... tune , we do not presently breake all the strings , but reduce and tune those , which are out of tune . ' 50 From the book of music Renaissance man learned many things about those " sweet Societies that sing " in Paradise and about ...
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... tune : Since I am coming to that Holy roome , Where , with thy Quire of Saints for evermore , I shall be made thy Musique ; As I come I tune the Instrument here at the dore , And what I must doe then , thinke here before . " 7 In ...
... tune : Since I am coming to that Holy roome , Where , with thy Quire of Saints for evermore , I shall be made thy Musique ; As I come I tune the Instrument here at the dore , And what I must doe then , thinke here before . " 7 In ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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