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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... ancient sources , often from the same source , but they followed different trains of thought . This chapter will confine itself to the more serious approach , that which formed the basis of sixteenth- and seventeenth - century religious ...
... ancient sources , often from the same source , but they followed different trains of thought . This chapter will confine itself to the more serious approach , that which formed the basis of sixteenth- and seventeenth - century religious ...
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... ancient effects , and especially to Pontus de Tyard , who described music as an image of all harmony , which could as such regulate the motions of the soul . " Usually , however , men who argued that music in church could elevate the ...
... ancient effects , and especially to Pontus de Tyard , who described music as an image of all harmony , which could as such regulate the motions of the soul . " Usually , however , men who argued that music in church could elevate the ...
Page 127
... ancient Greeks , which would produce the same marvelous effects claimed for it by ancient writers . Unfortunately , nothing was known about Greek music . A hymn of Mesomedes , dis- covered by Galilei , was of no assistance , since its ...
... ancient Greeks , which would produce the same marvelous effects claimed for it by ancient writers . Unfortunately , nothing was known about Greek music . A hymn of Mesomedes , dis- covered by Galilei , was of no assistance , since its ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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