Milton's Knowledge of Music: Its Sources and Its Significance in His Works |
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... numbers hit By voice or hand , and various - measured verse.1 He describes the planets which move Their starry dance in numbers that compute Days , months , and years.2 The heavenly music is composed of the innumerable sound Of hymns ...
... numbers hit By voice or hand , and various - measured verse.1 He describes the planets which move Their starry dance in numbers that compute Days , months , and years.2 The heavenly music is composed of the innumerable sound Of hymns ...
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... numbers without number , sweet As from blest voices , uttering joy - Heaven rung With jubilee , and loud hosannas ... numbers that compute Days , months , and years , towards his all - cheering lamp Turn swift their various motions ...
... numbers without number , sweet As from blest voices , uttering joy - Heaven rung With jubilee , and loud hosannas ... numbers that compute Days , months , and years , towards his all - cheering lamp Turn swift their various motions ...
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... numbers . Morley , p . 31 ; 242 : " " Morley calls proportion " the comparing of numbers placed perpendicularly one over another . " In explanation of this he continues , " Indeed we do not in music consider the numbers by themselves ...
... numbers . Morley , p . 31 ; 242 : " " Morley calls proportion " the comparing of numbers placed perpendicularly one over another . " In explanation of this he continues , " Indeed we do not in music consider the numbers by themselves ...
Contents
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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