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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... play upon me , you would seem to know my stops , you would pluck out the heart of my mystery , you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass ; and there is much music , excellent voice , in this little organ , yet ...
... play upon me , you would seem to know my stops , you would pluck out the heart of my mystery , you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass ; and there is much music , excellent voice , in this little organ , yet ...
Page 223
... Play ; and after that succeeds the chorus , which commonly takes up more time in Singing than there has been employ'd in speaking . " The two points of view represent a basic conflict in seventeenth - century drama , a conflict in which ...
... Play ; and after that succeeds the chorus , which commonly takes up more time in Singing than there has been employ'd in speaking . " The two points of view represent a basic conflict in seventeenth - century drama , a conflict in which ...
Page 225
... plays that confused pastoral and tragic elements . And the fact remains that the present discussion is concerned , not ... play is 1114 lines long , the choral parts taking up just under 30 per cent of the whole , which approaches the ...
... plays that confused pastoral and tragic elements . And the fact remains that the present discussion is concerned , not ... play is 1114 lines long , the choral parts taking up just under 30 per cent of the whole , which approaches the ...
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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