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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... produce a harmony similar both to that of the universe and to that of heard music . Plotinus , having explained that ... produced by the tuning up of the natural body ( as Aristoxenus was credited with saying ) or whether soul is like a ...
... produce a harmony similar both to that of the universe and to that of heard music . Plotinus , having explained that ... produced by the tuning up of the natural body ( as Aristoxenus was credited with saying ) or whether soul is like a ...
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... produces concordance , so does the universe produce harmonious melody . " " Clement of Alexandria was both more comprehensive and more explicit , for to him the universe was a " many - voiced instrument . ” Man is a pipe " by reason of ...
... produces concordance , so does the universe produce harmonious melody . " " Clement of Alexandria was both more comprehensive and more explicit , for to him the universe was a " many - voiced instrument . ” Man is a pipe " by reason of ...
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... produced in Florence in 1600. Their literary value may be questioned , but critical writings of the time to be found in prefaces , dedications , and theoretical works leave no doubt of the sincerity of these attempts to produce drama in ...
... produced in Florence in 1600. Their literary value may be questioned , but critical writings of the time to be found in prefaces , dedications , and theoretical works leave no doubt of the sincerity of these attempts to produce drama in ...
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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