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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Gretchen Ludke Finney. CHAPTER VI Musical Humanism : An Anti - Pythagorean Cross - current OR many years there were those who imagined harmony Fto be the cause of ecstasy or of love or of rebirth , but ... Pythagorean Cross- current.
Gretchen Ludke Finney. CHAPTER VI Musical Humanism : An Anti - Pythagorean Cross - current OR many years there were those who imagined harmony Fto be the cause of ecstasy or of love or of rebirth , but ... Pythagorean Cross- current.
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... Pythagorean metaphysics ; furthermore , they were able to translate theory into musical forms and styles of lasting influence , forms and styles that influenced literature as well as music . A group of poets , musicians , and scholars ...
... Pythagorean metaphysics ; furthermore , they were able to translate theory into musical forms and styles of lasting influence , forms and styles that influenced literature as well as music . A group of poets , musicians , and scholars ...
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... Pythagorean doctrine . Music may have become the slave of poetry , but it was at least freed from the imagined law of nature . " " To learn how the dramatic singer might project emotion , he turned to writings of the great orators ...
... Pythagorean doctrine . Music may have become the slave of poetry , but it was at least freed from the imagined law of nature . " " To learn how the dramatic singer might project emotion , he turned to writings of the great orators ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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