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 109
... means of " herbs , stones and aromas , which have in them a natural divine power " ; by means of " hymns and praises and sweet sounds concerted like the harmony of the heavens " they retained these spirits . This passage Ficino ...
... means of " herbs , stones and aromas , which have in them a natural divine power " ; by means of " hymns and praises and sweet sounds concerted like the harmony of the heavens " they retained these spirits . This passage Ficino ...
Page 154
... means . 45 It is indicative of the changing times that Descartes himself lost interest in music's effects after his early Compendium . A few writers did attempt to fit Scaliger's theory into a Cartesian framework . Dr. Thomas Willis ...
... means . 45 It is indicative of the changing times that Descartes himself lost interest in music's effects after his early Compendium . A few writers did attempt to fit Scaliger's theory into a Cartesian framework . Dr. Thomas Willis ...
Page 154
... means . It is indicative of the changing times that Descartes himself lost interest in music's effects after his early Compendium . A few writers did attempt to fit Scaliger's theory into a Cartesian framework . Dr. Thomas Willis ( 1621 ...
... means . It is indicative of the changing times that Descartes himself lost interest in music's effects after his early Compendium . A few writers did attempt to fit Scaliger's theory into a Cartesian framework . Dr. Thomas Willis ( 1621 ...
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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