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Page 112
... heard , no song be set or sung , but what is grave and doric . There must be licensing dancers , that no gesture , motion , or deportment be taught our youth , but what by their allowance shall be thought honest ; for such Plato was ...
... heard , no song be set or sung , but what is grave and doric . There must be licensing dancers , that no gesture , motion , or deportment be taught our youth , but what by their allowance shall be thought honest ; for such Plato was ...
Page 134
... heard , by their nearness , the heavens giving harmonious sounds , and were un- able to restrain themselves from following the choirs ? But Py- thagoras alone among mortals is said to have heard this con- 1 Cf. Ovid , Fast . 2. 80 ff ...
... heard , by their nearness , the heavens giving harmonious sounds , and were un- able to restrain themselves from following the choirs ? But Py- thagoras alone among mortals is said to have heard this con- 1 Cf. Ovid , Fast . 2. 80 ff ...
Page 137
... heard only , and their labor , like that of the astronomers , is in vain .... I am speaking of the Pythagoreans , of whom I was just now proposing to inquire about harmony . For they too are in error , like the astro- nomers ; they ...
... heard only , and their labor , like that of the astronomers , is in vain .... I am speaking of the Pythagoreans , of whom I was just now proposing to inquire about harmony . For they too are in error , like the astro- nomers ; they ...
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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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