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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... especially by Italian musical theories and practice , which , it seems to the present writer , were a determining factor in the composition of Comus and " Lycidas , " and which he acknowledged in the prefatory lines to Samson Agonistes ...
... especially by Italian musical theories and practice , which , it seems to the present writer , were a determining factor in the composition of Comus and " Lycidas , " and which he acknowledged in the prefatory lines to Samson Agonistes ...
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... especially in the well - known Platonic and Pythagorean theories of music as an image of world harmony and in the Greek doctrine of ethos , as they came down through St. Augustine , Boethius , Ficino , and many others . But they were ...
... especially in the well - known Platonic and Pythagorean theories of music as an image of world harmony and in the Greek doctrine of ethos , as they came down through St. Augustine , Boethius , Ficino , and many others . But they were ...
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... especially in the descriptions of Comus , which are not found in La catena d'Adone , but which do exist in L'Adone . There is , further , the character of the attendant Spirit in Comus , which is not in the Tronsarelli libretto , but ...
... especially in the descriptions of Comus , which are not found in La catena d'Adone , but which do exist in L'Adone . There is , further , the character of the attendant Spirit in Comus , which is not in the Tronsarelli libretto , but ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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