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... notes being assigned to the furthest sphere by Nichomachus , and by Servius in his scholium on Virgil , Aen . 2. 255 , and to that of the moon by Cicero and Martianus Capella . According to A. 72 , and S. M. 23 , Milton seems to ...
... notes being assigned to the furthest sphere by Nichomachus , and by Servius in his scholium on Virgil , Aen . 2. 255 , and to that of the moon by Cicero and Martianus Capella . According to A. 72 , and S. M. 23 , Milton seems to ...
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... note , completing a triad . If strength and wisdom could not harmonize , in the sense of a concord of two different notes , they should , at least , have paired , that is , sounded in unison . But , being proportioned ill , that is ...
... note , completing a triad . If strength and wisdom could not harmonize , in the sense of a concord of two different notes , they should , at least , have paired , that is , sounded in unison . But , being proportioned ill , that is ...
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... note in the Choice Psalms tells us that story " ( Son . 13. 11 ) refers to the story of Ariadne set by him to music ... notes set by Lawes to the song of Sweet Echo neither constitute an air , nor melody ; and , indeed , they are even ...
... note in the Choice Psalms tells us that story " ( Son . 13. 11 ) refers to the story of Ariadne set by him to music ... notes set by Lawes to the song of Sweet Echo neither constitute an air , nor melody ; and , indeed , they are even ...
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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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