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 78
... motion , and the motion set up by one could change into the motion of the other . The motion of sound , Plato had written in the Timaeus , is circular , akin to the circular motion of men's souls and to the motion of the spheres . Sound ...
... motion , and the motion set up by one could change into the motion of the other . The motion of sound , Plato had written in the Timaeus , is circular , akin to the circular motion of men's souls and to the motion of the spheres . Sound ...
Page 142
... motion by sound . He was not explicit about the nature of this motion except to say that air re- bounds from the object that is struck , and that it vibrates.1o Motion of sound in the air was often described , from ancient times through ...
... motion by sound . He was not explicit about the nature of this motion except to say that air re- bounds from the object that is struck , and that it vibrates.1o Motion of sound in the air was often described , from ancient times through ...
Page 144
... motion of the body ... by the very motion of the subtill aire , it pierceth vehemently , and by contemplation sucketh sweetly.2 21 This idea , however , was given more materialistic interpre- tation long before Lodge wrote about Dowland ...
... motion of the body ... by the very motion of the subtill aire , it pierceth vehemently , and by contemplation sucketh sweetly.2 21 This idea , however , was given more materialistic interpre- tation long before Lodge wrote about Dowland ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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