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... interest in secular music , and its popularity increased rather than diminished . It was only through the degenerate taste of the Restoration period that English music really suffered . Of that period , however , as having had no real ...
... interest in secular music , and its popularity increased rather than diminished . It was only through the degenerate taste of the Restoration period that English music really suffered . Of that period , however , as having had no real ...
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... interest in the music of a young man whose father was so well- known and highly honored in his own field . That Milton took any active part in the musical affairs of the Uni- versity , however , cannot be proved . In his later years he ...
... interest in the music of a young man whose father was so well- known and highly honored in his own field . That Milton took any active part in the musical affairs of the Uni- versity , however , cannot be proved . In his later years he ...
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... interest , is speedily subordinated to his poetry . His imagination is stronger than his reason . This conquest , however , is by no means involuntary , but quite deliberate . Milton's mind is not incapable of ab- stract reasoning . He ...
... interest , is speedily subordinated to his poetry . His imagination is stronger than his reason . This conquest , however , is by no means involuntary , but quite deliberate . Milton's mind is not incapable of ab- stract reasoning . He ...
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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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