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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... given practical application by many Renaissance architects and painters , who ( partly on the authority of Vitruvius ) turned to music for the secret of ideal beauty . " The same numbers , by means of which the Agreement of Sounds ...
... given practical application by many Renaissance architects and painters , who ( partly on the authority of Vitruvius ) turned to music for the secret of ideal beauty . " The same numbers , by means of which the Agreement of Sounds ...
Page 101
... given way to the new science , metaphysics to physics , feeling to reason . Love and music were no longer identical , nor did one create the other . Before examining some of the trends that led to a changed view of music , however , it ...
... given way to the new science , metaphysics to physics , feeling to reason . Love and music were no longer identical , nor did one create the other . Before examining some of the trends that led to a changed view of music , however , it ...
Page 180
... given in Rome in the early part of the seventeenth century , there is one to which Comus has peculiar similarity , La catena d'Adone , by Ottavio Tronsarelli and Domenico Mazzocchi , performed and printed in Rome in 1626. Not only is ...
... given in Rome in the early part of the seventeenth century , there is one to which Comus has peculiar similarity , La catena d'Adone , by Ottavio Tronsarelli and Domenico Mazzocchi , performed and printed in Rome in 1626. Not only is ...
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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