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 25
... called sacrae notae , 16 or to their " marks and characters , " traced back to Adam , Noah , or Moses , " under which all the precepts of their wisdome were contained . " Others were less abstruse , and yet " wittie " and " cunning ...
... called sacrae notae , 16 or to their " marks and characters , " traced back to Adam , Noah , or Moses , " under which all the precepts of their wisdome were contained . " Others were less abstruse , and yet " wittie " and " cunning ...
Page 104
... called this spirit the quintessence , because it was of a higher nature than the four elements ( fire , air , water , earth ) of which the universe was thought to be composed . It was the quintessence that they hoped by their art to ...
... called this spirit the quintessence , because it was of a higher nature than the four elements ( fire , air , water , earth ) of which the universe was thought to be composed . It was the quintessence that they hoped by their art to ...
Page 130
... ( called melodramma , the present - day opera ) drew on Italian pastoral drama , especially Tasso's Aminto and Guarini's Il Pastor Fido , as well as on Greek tragedy , but they were shorter than the pastoral plays , the plots were less ...
... ( called melodramma , the present - day opera ) drew on Italian pastoral drama , especially Tasso's Aminto and Guarini's Il Pastor Fido , as well as on Greek tragedy , but they were shorter than the pastoral plays , the plots were less ...
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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