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 85
... sense organ to other parts of the body , to carry qualities of the sender . Ficino sometimes wrote of the spirits going out of the sense organ to receive the sense image , but in the De amore he described the image of beauty entering ...
... sense organ to other parts of the body , to carry qualities of the sender . Ficino sometimes wrote of the spirits going out of the sense organ to receive the sense image , but in the De amore he described the image of beauty entering ...
Page 145
... sense , which was commonly located in the fore part of the brain , unified the variety of impressions carried to it by the spirits . These impressions , gradually freed of matter ( in which he showed no interest ) , were presented to ...
... sense , which was commonly located in the fore part of the brain , unified the variety of impressions carried to it by the spirits . These impressions , gradually freed of matter ( in which he showed no interest ) , were presented to ...
Page 168
... sense , And in sweet madnes rob'd it of it self . ( 255-260 ) This kind of music , designated for use in the banqueting scene , is the seductive music of Acrasia's Bower , where men are transformed to beasts . Yet the singing of the ...
... sense , And in sweet madnes rob'd it of it self . ( 255-260 ) This kind of music , designated for use in the banqueting scene , is the seductive music of Acrasia's Bower , where men are transformed to beasts . Yet the singing of the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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according Adonis ancient beauty body breath called carried catena d'Adone cause century chorus church classical completely composed Comus dance described divine drama early effects elements Elizabethan emotions English entirely especially explained feeling Ficino follows give given Greek harmony hear heart heaven Henry human idea imagined influence instrument interest Italian Italy John kind later Lawes less lines London lost Lycidas means melody Milton mind motion move musician nature notes organ Orpheus parallel passage passions pastoral performance person philosophy Plato play poem poet poetry possible present produced proportion question reason recitative rhythm Rome Samson sense similar singing song soul sound speech spirit strings style suggests sung sweet theory things Thomas thought tion tune turn universe verse voice whole writing written wrote York
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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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