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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... tune by Adam who being chief of all the 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 ...
... tune by Adam who being chief of all the 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 ...
Page 32
... tune , we do not presently breake all the strings , but reduce and tune those , which are out of tune . " 50 From the book of music Renaissance man learned many things about those " sweet Societies that sing " in Paradise and about ...
... tune , we do not presently breake all the strings , but reduce and tune those , which are out of tune . " 50 From the book of music Renaissance man learned many things about those " sweet Societies that sing " in Paradise and about ...
Page 44
... tune : Since I am coming to that Holy roome , Where , with thy Quire of Saints for evermore , I shall be made thy Musique ; As I come I tune the Instrument here at the dore , And what I must doe then , thinke here before . " In ...
... tune : Since I am coming to that Holy roome , Where , with thy Quire of Saints for evermore , I shall be made thy Musique ; As I come I tune the Instrument here at the dore , And what I must doe then , thinke here before . " In ...
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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