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 8
... string was added to the ' ud to represent the soul and that the strings were dyed to correspond to the colors of the humors . Since the soul coexisted with the blood , the fifth string was placed in the middle . " It followed in Arabic ...
... string was added to the ' ud to represent the soul and that the strings were dyed to correspond to the colors of the humors . Since the soul coexisted with the blood , the fifth string was placed in the middle . " It followed in Arabic ...
Page 10
... strings of an instrument , but strings of an instrument are like heartstrings . " Harp not on that string , madam , " warns the King , to which the Queen replies , " Harp on it still shall I till heart - strings break . " " Pericles ...
... strings of an instrument , but strings of an instrument are like heartstrings . " Harp not on that string , madam , " warns the King , to which the Queen replies , " Harp on it still shall I till heart - strings break . " " Pericles ...
Page 12
... strings .. Of this large Lute , o'r - retched , quickly brings All out of tune.32 John Donne imagined the broken string of this once - perfect lute replaced by the Messiah : " We may say the trebles , the highest strings were disordered ...
... strings .. Of this large Lute , o'r - retched , quickly brings All out of tune.32 John Donne imagined the broken string of this once - perfect lute replaced by the Messiah : " We may say the trebles , the highest strings were disordered ...
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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