Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page xi
... writers reveal many secrets - beliefs , prejudices , even personalities . The image is a rule by which one can gauge the changing temper of an age . Milton is inevitably the major writer who must be con- sidered in any study of ...
... writers reveal many secrets - beliefs , prejudices , even personalities . The image is a rule by which one can gauge the changing temper of an age . Milton is inevitably the major writer who must be con- sidered in any study of ...
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... writers of the ninth and tenth centuries , in their application of cosmic musical parallels to therapeutics , helped also to literalize the association of man with musical instruments . The spheres , themselves , according to the Pytha ...
... writers of the ninth and tenth centuries , in their application of cosmic musical parallels to therapeutics , helped also to literalize the association of man with musical instruments . The spheres , themselves , according to the Pytha ...
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... writers who imagined it the basis of the universe— by Plato in the Timaeus , by Macrobius in the commentary on the " Dream of Scipio , " by the Renaissance architects and painters — as a rational principle expressed in mathematical ...
... writers who imagined it the basis of the universe— by Plato in the Timaeus , by Macrobius in the commentary on the " Dream of Scipio , " by the Renaissance architects and painters — as a rational principle expressed in mathematical ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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