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 ...
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... according to " harmonical " law . Boethius , whose De institutione musica furnished the authoritative theoretical text for more than a thousand years , crystallized this scheme of cosmic musical parallels by desig- nating three kinds of ...
... according to " harmonical " law . Boethius , whose De institutione musica furnished the authoritative theoretical text for more than a thousand years , crystallized this scheme of cosmic musical parallels by desig- nating three kinds of ...
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... 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 ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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