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 71
... question of the nature of music . The immediate controversy was occasioned by the installation of an organ at Tiverton in Devon in 1696 , and involved John Newte , who preached the sermon in praise of organs on that occasion , the ...
... question of the nature of music . The immediate controversy was occasioned by the installation of an organ at Tiverton in Devon in 1696 , and involved John Newte , who preached the sermon in praise of organs on that occasion , the ...
Page 83
... questions then arose . What is beauty ? Does music possess beauty ? If it does , can man , by love of beauty in music , elevate his soul to God ? This age - old question of the nature of beauty , which has never been satisfactorily ...
... questions then arose . What is beauty ? Does music possess beauty ? If it does , can man , by love of beauty in music , elevate his soul to God ? This age - old question of the nature of beauty , which has never been satisfactorily ...
Page 144
... question much debated . Crooke thought it similar , at least , to animal spirit . At any rate , it was by means of this airlike substance that motion was transmitted to the auditory nerves leading to the 144 Musical Backgrounds for ...
... question much debated . Crooke thought it similar , at least , to animal spirit . At any rate , it was by means of this airlike substance that motion was transmitted to the auditory nerves leading to the 144 Musical Backgrounds for ...
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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