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... called " equal in science , if not genius , to the best musicians of his age . " S. v . Milton in Grove's Dict . 2 Brief Lives 2. 62 . The song of Oriana " was a madrigal for six voices published in 1601 in a collection entitled The ...
... called " equal in science , if not genius , to the best musicians of his age . " S. v . Milton in Grove's Dict . 2 Brief Lives 2. 62 . The song of Oriana " was a madrigal for six voices published in 1601 in a collection entitled The ...
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... called scientific . Plato had expanded the mystical Pythagorean system of numbers , without making its mysticism more intelligible . Aristotle had criticized without illuminating . Aristoxenus , Plutarch and Claudius Ptolemaeus had made ...
... called scientific . Plato had expanded the mystical Pythagorean system of numbers , without making its mysticism more intelligible . Aristotle had criticized without illuminating . Aristoxenus , Plutarch and Claudius Ptolemaeus had made ...
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... called it a quaint alteration of the reading . . . which none but a musician would have thought of . " — Hawkins 4. 52. He is quite right in the latter remark , but the musician was Milton himself , not Lawes . " " " " The music of ...
... called it a quaint alteration of the reading . . . which none but a musician would have thought of . " — Hawkins 4. 52. He is quite right in the latter remark , but the musician was Milton himself , not Lawes . " " " " The music of ...
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English Music in the Seventeenth Century | 1 |
The Life of Milton as a Musician | 12 |
Milton and the Art of Music 28 | 57 |
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