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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... theory and the instruments that men knew . Through actual experiment with musical strings Pytha- goras or his followers discovered the theory , still accepted , of the relation of pitch to the length of the string . On the basis of ...
... theory and the instruments that men knew . Through actual experiment with musical strings Pytha- goras or his followers discovered the theory , still accepted , of the relation of pitch to the length of the string . On the basis of ...
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... theories had an effect on the later use of music as medicine . But the idea of the elements of the universe and of man as strings of an instrument ... theory for the growing group of musical 8 Musical Backgrounds for English Literature.
... theories had an effect on the later use of music as medicine . But the idea of the elements of the universe and of man as strings of an instrument ... theory for the growing group of musical 8 Musical Backgrounds for English Literature.
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... theories of a world harmony to which soul is irresistibly drawn . But inextricably connected with attraction of soul to original harmony was a third theory , that of Platonic love as it was developed by Plato and Plo- tinus , which ...
... theories of a world harmony to which soul is irresistibly drawn . But inextricably connected with attraction of soul to original harmony was a third theory , that of Platonic love as it was developed by Plato and Plo- tinus , which ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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