Milton's Knowledge of Music: Its Sources and Its Significance in His Works |
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... philosophical sense ) seems to bear in Milton a twofold musical significance . Its more general meaning is that of actual motion productive of sound , as the vibration of a string or of the air , or the whirling of the spheres . Thus ...
... philosophical sense ) seems to bear in Milton a twofold musical significance . Its more general meaning is that of actual motion productive of sound , as the vibration of a string or of the air , or the whirling of the spheres . Thus ...
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... philosophical abstractions which lead to a vague mysticism . He finds therein hints of a necessary universal concord which appeals to his philosophical nature , but which he is unable to express 1 Thus he enlarges upon the musical ...
... philosophical abstractions which lead to a vague mysticism . He finds therein hints of a necessary universal concord which appeals to his philosophical nature , but which he is unable to express 1 Thus he enlarges upon the musical ...
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... philosophical writers on this branch of education , and they confirm their arguments by facts . The same principles ... philosophers say that the soul is a harmony , others , that she possesses harmony . ... We accept the division of ...
... philosophical writers on this branch of education , and they confirm their arguments by facts . The same principles ... philosophers say that the soul is a harmony , others , that she possesses harmony . ... We accept the division 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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