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 ix
... according to musical law . ' Musical speculation had effect , without doubt , on musical composition , as Manfred Bukofzer has pointed out , but that relationship will be touched on here in only the most general way . The reflection of ...
... according to musical law . ' Musical speculation had effect , without doubt , on musical composition , as Manfred Bukofzer has pointed out , but that relationship will be touched on here in only the most general way . The reflection of ...
Page 55
... according to Plato , may have a vision of the divine . Plotinus , however , gave to actual melodies and rhythms , as Plato had not , a function in this ascent . According to Plotinus , the aim of man must be to raise his soul to the ...
... according to Plato , may have a vision of the divine . Plotinus , however , gave to actual melodies and rhythms , as Plato had not , a function in this ascent . According to Plotinus , the aim of man must be to raise his soul to the ...
Page 109
... according to this spirit theory , it was usually not man who was carried to heaven , but heaven that was brought to man . By influx of divine spirit , not withdrawal of soul or spirit , man was made celestial . He need not even have a ...
... according to this spirit theory , it was usually not man who was carried to heaven , but heaven that was brought to man . By influx of divine spirit , not withdrawal of soul or spirit , man was made celestial . He need not even have a ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 |
| Author | Gretchen Ludke Finney |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 Jul 2008 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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