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 11
... musician who plays on the body's instruments . Refining the image of sensuousness , of concrete literalness , almost of musical reality , he makes of it an allegory to explain the relation of soul to body , the true musica humana : Thus ...
... musician who plays on the body's instruments . Refining the image of sensuousness , of concrete literalness , almost of musical reality , he makes of it an allegory to explain the relation of soul to body , the true musica humana : Thus ...
Page 129
... musician must judge by the ear as well as by reason , he wrote . “ The only interval with a determinate ratio was the octave ; the others were subject to endless variety . " While Galilei thus widened the emotional spectrum available to ...
... musician must judge by the ear as well as by reason , he wrote . “ The only interval with a determinate ratio was the octave ; the others were subject to endless variety . " While Galilei thus widened the emotional spectrum available to ...
Page 134
... musician to insupportable restrictions . Notes were bound to a temporal matching of words , words to classical rhythms . Imitation of ancient lyric forms was not a satisfactory solution for Elizabethan poets motivated by desire for more ...
... musician to insupportable restrictions . Notes were bound to a temporal matching of words , words to classical rhythms . Imitation of ancient lyric forms was not a satisfactory solution for Elizabethan poets motivated by desire for more ...
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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