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 180
... Rome in the early part of the seventeenth century , there is one to which Comus has peculiar similarity , La catena d'Adone , by Ottavio Tronsarelli and Domenico Mazzocchi , performed and printed in Rome in 1626. Not only is this ...
... Rome in the early part of the seventeenth century , there is one to which Comus has peculiar similarity , La catena d'Adone , by Ottavio Tronsarelli and Domenico Mazzocchi , performed and printed in Rome in 1626. Not only is this ...
Page 233
... Rome in October , 1639.97 He had been in Rome for over a year , at the same time that Milton was there . He , like Milton , had heard the great Leonora . He had been on numerous occasions to her home , had himself played the viol for ...
... Rome in October , 1639.97 He had been in Rome for over a year , at the same time that Milton was there . He , like Milton , had heard the great Leonora . He had been on numerous occasions to her home , had himself played the viol for ...
Page 281
... ( Rome , 1888 ) , pp . 25 ff . 27. A bibliography of Doni's works on music is given by Angelo Solerti , Le origini del melodramma ( Turin , 1903 ) , pp . 186 ff . He reprints excerpts from them , as well as from Pietro della Valle's ...
... ( Rome , 1888 ) , pp . 25 ff . 27. A bibliography of Doni's works on music is given by Angelo Solerti , Le origini del melodramma ( Turin , 1903 ) , pp . 186 ff . He reprints excerpts from them , as well as from Pietro della Valle's ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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