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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... elements of the universe , and on another of the four elements , the four temperaments , and the four humors of the human body . There was a further parallel with the four faculties of the soul . The treble string corresponded to fire ...
... elements of the universe , and on another of the four elements , the four temperaments , and the four humors of the human body . There was a further parallel with the four faculties of the soul . The treble string corresponded to fire ...
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... elements of the universe and of man as strings of an instrument also influenced the Elizabethan " world picture . " Christian writers of following centuries accepted these theories along with the speculative thinking of the early Greeks ...
... elements of the universe and of man as strings of an instrument also influenced the Elizabethan " world picture . " Christian writers of following centuries accepted these theories along with the speculative thinking of the early Greeks ...
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... elements and those in music . H. G. Farmer , " The Influence of Music : From Arabic Sources , " The Musical Association , London , Proceedings , 1925–1926 ( 1926 ) , 99. Avicenna , who with Galen provided medical canon for many ...
... elements and those in music . H. G. Farmer , " The Influence of Music : From Arabic Sources , " The Musical Association , London , Proceedings , 1925–1926 ( 1926 ) , 99. Avicenna , who with Galen provided medical canon for many ...
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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