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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... interest . The more famous , then , as now , was Striggio's libretto , La favola d'Orfeo , set by Monteverdi , a work with greater emotional intensity , sharper contrast of mood , higher degree of seriousness , than its predecessors ...
... interest . The more famous , then , as now , was Striggio's libretto , La favola d'Orfeo , set by Monteverdi , a work with greater emotional intensity , sharper contrast of mood , higher degree of seriousness , than its predecessors ...
Page 234
... interest here because of its classical use of chorus.38 One of the most interesting examples of seventeenthcentury oratorio , which shows many of the classical influences of sung drama , is actually based on the Samson story : Il ...
... interest here because of its classical use of chorus.38 One of the most interesting examples of seventeenthcentury oratorio , which shows many of the classical influences of sung drama , is actually based on the Samson story : Il ...
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... interest in the Greek drama . Samson's monody " O dark , dark , dark ... , " introduced with a change in verse form which in Italian musical drama indicated the entrance of a solo voice , is paralleled also in the ancient monody . The ...
... interest in the Greek drama . Samson's monody " O dark , dark , dark ... , " introduced with a change in verse form which in Italian musical drama indicated the entrance of a solo voice , is paralleled also in the ancient monody . The ...
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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