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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... rhythm of the human pulse was still thought , as in the past , to resemble that of music . " Each Chords tun'd pulse ... rhythm , and pitch , fifteen kinds of pulse rhythm , knowledge 38 Musical Backgrounds for English Literature.
... rhythm of the human pulse was still thought , as in the past , to resemble that of music . " Each Chords tun'd pulse ... rhythm , and pitch , fifteen kinds of pulse rhythm , knowledge 38 Musical Backgrounds for English Literature.
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... rhythm starting with the lines : Mean while the Rural ditties were not mute , Temper'd to th'Oaten Flute , Rough Satyrs danc'd , and Fauns with clov'n heel , From the glad sound would not be absent long , And old Damaetus lov'd to hear ...
... rhythm starting with the lines : Mean while the Rural ditties were not mute , Temper'd to th'Oaten Flute , Rough Satyrs danc'd , and Fauns with clov'n heel , From the glad sound would not be absent long , And old Damaetus lov'd to hear ...
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... rhythm starting with the lines : Mean while the Rural ditties were not mute , Temper'd to th'Oaten Flute , Rough Satyrs danc'd , and Fauns with clov'n heel , From the glad sound would not be absent long , And old Damaetus lov'd to hear ...
... rhythm starting with the lines : Mean while the Rural ditties were not mute , Temper'd to th'Oaten Flute , Rough Satyrs danc'd , and Fauns with clov'n heel , From the glad sound would not be absent long , And old Damaetus lov'd to hear ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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