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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... similar musical characteristics . Man's world , his body , his natural environment , were also like musical instruments and could produce a harmony similar both to that of the universe and to that of heard music . Plotinus , having ...
... similar musical characteristics . Man's world , his body , his natural environment , were also like musical instruments and could produce a harmony similar both to that of the universe and to that of heard music . Plotinus , having ...
Page 147
... similar tale related by the Danish writer , Saxo Grammaticus , of a musician who , asked by Henry II of Denmark to demonstrate his prowess , put the king first into deep melancholy and then into such a rage that he slew four of his ...
... similar tale related by the Danish writer , Saxo Grammaticus , of a musician who , asked by Henry II of Denmark to demonstrate his prowess , put the king first into deep melancholy and then into such a rage that he slew four of his ...
Page 185
... similar in rhyme scheme to one of the choruses in that group , where one finds the abc bcb dd ee fb rhyme of La catena d'Adone compared to the aab ccb dd ee fg of Comus . One notes , also , the pastoral quality of both : Qui d'or la ...
... similar in rhyme scheme to one of the choruses in that group , where one finds the abc bcb dd ee fb rhyme of La catena d'Adone compared to the aab ccb dd ee fg of Comus . One notes , also , the pastoral quality of both : Qui d'or la ...
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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