Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650Rutgers University Press, 1962 - 292 pages The author traces the history of metaphysical ideas about music and explores the place of these in the poetry of Milton. |
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Page 177
... Italian monody ) to the famous musicaldramatic productions of Italy , which attempted to create a " music " like that defined by Plato ? If , as seems probable , the theme of Comus was intended to be an attack on the debased ...
... Italian monody ) to the famous musicaldramatic productions of Italy , which attempted to create a " music " like that defined by Plato ? If , as seems probable , the theme of Comus was intended to be an attack on the debased ...
Page 223
... Italians . Many historians of the Italian theater report a similar disappearance of chorus . A modern critic , for example , declares : " This suppression of the chorus [ in Italy ] is the most important innovation in the seventeenth ...
... Italians . Many historians of the Italian theater report a similar disappearance of chorus . A modern critic , for example , declares : " This suppression of the chorus [ in Italy ] is the most important innovation in the seventeenth ...
Page 236
... Italian melodramma and oratorio until and during his visit to Italy . Samson Agonistes might well have existed as it is without these seventeenth - century Italian productions . One could with justification trace its antecedents from ...
... Italian melodramma and oratorio until and during his visit to Italy . Samson Agonistes might well have existed as it is without these seventeenth - century Italian productions . One could with justification trace its antecedents from ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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