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 82
... less consequential . It is united and sweetened by love , not ordered according to mathematical proportion . " Love ... less strict , and less concerned with divine love than with human , admitted that it might serve a function in ...
... less consequential . It is united and sweetened by love , not ordered according to mathematical proportion . " Love ... less strict , and less concerned with divine love than with human , admitted that it might serve a function in ...
Page 177
... less than that of form - so much less that the variety of the suggested source material is incredible , including , as it does , Homer , Spenser , Ben Jonson , the Greek tragic poets , and George Peele , not to mention parallels from ...
... less than that of form - so much less that the variety of the suggested source material is incredible , including , as it does , Homer , Spenser , Ben Jonson , the Greek tragic poets , and George Peele , not to mention parallels from ...
Page 202
... less stylized than the first . Instead of being a series of set songs , of small forms , it is a free treatment of a large subject which is not bound by a formal design . This entire second division is in recitative , with the variety ...
... less stylized than the first . Instead of being a series of set songs , of small forms , it is a free treatment of a large subject which is not bound by a formal design . This entire second division is in recitative , with the variety ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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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| 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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