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 31
... wrote John Case in his Apologia musices ( 1588 ) , or one lax nerve in the body causes paralysis and tremors , so one false member in a state brings confusion and danger . It is for this reason , he argued , that knowledge of music has ...
... wrote John Case in his Apologia musices ( 1588 ) , or one lax nerve in the body causes paralysis and tremors , so one false member in a state brings confusion and danger . It is for this reason , he argued , that knowledge of music has ...
Page 38
... wrote Wotton , on the octave , the fifth , and the fourth , which apply as well to architecture as to music . He admitted that this speculation might not appeal to " vulgar Artizans . " " Yet wee must remember , " he wrote , " that ...
... wrote Wotton , on the octave , the fifth , and the fourth , which apply as well to architecture as to music . He admitted that this speculation might not appeal to " vulgar Artizans . " " Yet wee must remember , " he wrote , " that ...
Page 142
... wrote Aristotle , are made up of “ matter ” and " form " or " quality . " By sense perception man receives form without matter ; what is heard as sound is abstracted from the substance or medium of sound , which is air , air that has ...
... wrote Aristotle , are made up of “ matter ” and " form " or " quality . " By sense perception man receives form without matter ; what is heard as sound is abstracted from the substance or medium of sound , which is air , air that has ...
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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