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 118
... present to the phantasy an image of the regions from which they came , a heaven which is musical : And to our high - rais'd phantasie present , That undisturbed Song of pure concent , Ay sung before the saphire - colour'd throne To him ...
... present to the phantasy an image of the regions from which they came , a heaven which is musical : And to our high - rais'd phantasie present , That undisturbed Song of pure concent , Ay sung before the saphire - colour'd throne To him ...
Page 130
... present - day opera ) drew on Italian pastoral drama , especially Tasso's Aminto and Guarini's Il Pastor Fido , as well as on Greek tragedy , but they were shorter than the pastoral plays , the plots were less complicated , and the ...
... present - day opera ) drew on Italian pastoral drama , especially Tasso's Aminto and Guarini's Il Pastor Fido , as well as on Greek tragedy , but they were shorter than the pastoral plays , the plots were less complicated , and the ...
Page 230
... present , for he headed the list of Cardinal Antonio's domestic officers from 1637 to 1639. " The composers of Chi soffre , speri were surely present , and one may conclude , also , that the famous castrato , Loreto Vittori , saw the ...
... present , for he headed the list of Cardinal Antonio's domestic officers from 1637 to 1639. " The composers of Chi soffre , speri were surely present , and one may conclude , also , that the famous castrato , Loreto Vittori , saw 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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