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 204
... passage . The last half line is lighter in style and carries on into the lyrical passage that follows : Return Alpheus , the dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; / Return Sicilian Muse . The general form of the third division ...
... passage . The last half line is lighter in style and carries on into the lyrical passage that follows : Return Alpheus , the dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; / Return Sicilian Muse . The general form of the third division ...
Page 204
... passage . The last half line is lighter in style and carries on into the lyrical passage that follows : Return Alpheus , the dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; / Return Sicilian Muse . The general form of the third division ...
... passage . The last half line is lighter in style and carries on into the lyrical passage that follows : Return Alpheus , the dread voice is past , That shrunk thy streams ; / Return Sicilian Muse . The general form of the third division ...
Page 205
... passage is light , with short vowels and delicate consonants . The recitative is strong and forceful ; it demands full voice . The next paragraph then , the final , triumphant song , would have to be still louder and still more majestic ...
... passage is light , with short vowels and delicate consonants . The recitative is strong and forceful ; it demands full voice . The next paragraph then , the final , triumphant song , would have to be still louder and still more majestic ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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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