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 ix
... performance - methods of singing or playing - musica practica . Speculative music dealt with the nature of sound , with the position and function of music in the entire system of human knowledge , and with music's usefulness to man . It ...
... performance - methods of singing or playing - musica practica . Speculative music dealt with the nature of sound , with the position and function of music in the entire system of human knowledge , and with music's usefulness to man . It ...
Page 230
... performance , for he acknowledged debt to the market scene in the preface to his own poem , La Fiera . Leonora Baroni , the famous singer to whom Milton wrote the Latin poems , was probably not present on this occasion , for Ademollo ...
... performance , for he acknowledged debt to the market scene in the preface to his own poem , La Fiera . Leonora Baroni , the famous singer to whom Milton wrote the Latin poems , was probably not present on this occasion , for Ademollo ...
Page 276
... performance each spectator was given a printed copy of the libretto . See Henry Prunières , Monteverdi , His Life and Work , tr . Marie D. Mackie ( London and Toronto , 1926 ) , p . 57. Gabriello Chiabrera , Il pianto d'Orfeo ...
... performance each spectator was given a printed copy of the libretto . See Henry Prunières , Monteverdi , His Life and Work , tr . Marie D. Mackie ( London and Toronto , 1926 ) , p . 57. Gabriello Chiabrera , Il pianto d'Orfeo ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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