Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 118
... Voice , and Vers . Wed your divine sounds , and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce . " Voice , and Vers " not only carry the spirit of life ; they also present to the phantasy an image of the regions from ...
... Voice , and Vers . Wed your divine sounds , and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce . " Voice , and Vers " not only carry the spirit of life ; they also present to the phantasy an image of the regions from ...
Page 120
... voice in Aristotelian terms . But he added the popular notion that with the voice , which is breath , there is an issue of spirits : Sound is a breath , voyce is a sound and animate breath ; Speech is a breath pronounced with sound ...
... voice in Aristotelian terms . But he added the popular notion that with the voice , which is breath , there is an issue of spirits : Sound is a breath , voyce is a sound and animate breath ; Speech is a breath pronounced with sound ...
Page 122
... voice : Sweete tunes , brave issue , that from Julia come ; Shooke from her braine , armed like the Queene of Ire ; For first conceived in her mentall wombe , And nourisht with her soules discursive fire , They grew into the power of ...
... voice : Sweete tunes , brave issue , that from Julia come ; Shooke from her braine , armed like the Queene of Ire ; For first conceived in her mentall wombe , And nourisht with her soules discursive fire , They grew into the power of ...
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