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 223
... - teenth century , the choruses , at least , were expected to be sung , and , for this purpose , were written in strophic form . " 14 Decline of chorus in France in the seventeenth century was Chorus in Samson Agonistes 223.
... - teenth century , the choruses , at least , were expected to be sung , and , for this purpose , were written in strophic form . " 14 Decline of chorus in France in the seventeenth century was Chorus in Samson Agonistes 223.
Page 225
... chorus in Italian plays that confused pastoral and tragic elements . And the fact remains that the present discussion is concerned , not with a strict dramatic form , but with use of chorus . The strict classicist could find innumerable ...
... chorus in Italian plays that confused pastoral and tragic elements . And the fact remains that the present discussion is concerned , not with a strict dramatic form , but with use of chorus . The strict classicist could find innumerable ...
Page 278
... chorus . Corneille used chorus in Andromède , but this production " is rather an elaborate masque interspersed with regular dramatic scenes than a tragedy " ( George Saintsbury , A Short History of French Literature [ Oxford , 1917 ] ...
... chorus . Corneille used chorus in Andromède , but this production " is rather an elaborate masque interspersed with regular dramatic scenes than a tragedy " ( George Saintsbury , A Short History of French Literature [ Oxford , 1917 ] ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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