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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... 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 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 ...
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... Rome in October , 1639.37 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 , 1639.37 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 ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Adonis ancient Aristotle ayre beauty Ben Jonson body breath catena d'Adone celestial chap choral chorus church classical composed Comus concord cosmic d'Orfeo dance described divine Donne doth ecstasy effects Elizabethan emblem emotions Falsirena Ficino George Wither Greek harmony harp heart heaven heavenly Henry Henry Lawes idea imagery imagined influence Italian John John Donne lines Loeb London lute Lycidas lyrical magic masque melodramma melody Milton mind monody mood motion move musical drama musical instruments musical sound musician nature Neoplatonic Neoplatonists occult oratorio organ Orpheus parallel passage passion pastoral philosophy Phineas Fletcher Plato Plotinus poem poet Poetical poetry proportion Puritan Pythagorean ravish recitative Renaissance rhythm Richard Crashaw Robert Fludd Rome Samson Agonistes sense seventeenth century shepherd singing song soul stanza Stefano Landi strings style sung sweet theory things Thomas thought tion Tronsarelli tune universe verse voice words world spirit writing wrote