After you read Henry Purcell’s comment, you may want to click on a demonstration of it, a short video in which his music is joined with poetry:
Musick and Poetry have ever been acknowledg’d Sisters, which walking hand in hand, support each other; as Poetry is the harmony of words, so Musick is that of Notes; and as Poetry is a Rise above Prose and Oratory, so is Musick the exaltation of Poetry. Both of them may excell apart, but sure are most excellent when they are join’d, because nothing is then wanting to either of their Perfections: for thus they appear like Wit and Beauty in the same person.
(Quoted on page 17 of Guitar Review, No. 42, Fall 1977.)
For the demonstration of Henry Purcell’s comment, click here.
For a brief biography of Henry Purcell, click here. For images of or relating to Henry Purcell, click here.
Musick and Poetry have ever been acknowledg’d Sisters, which walking hand in hand, support each other; as Poetry is the harmony of words, so Musick is that of Notes; and as Poetry is a Rise above Prose and Oratory, so is Musick the exaltation of Poetry. Both of them may excell apart, but sure are most excellent when they are join’d, because nothing is then wanting to either of their Perfections: for thus they appear like Wit and Beauty in the same person.
(Quoted on page 17 of Guitar Review, No. 42, Fall 1977.)
For the demonstration of Henry Purcell’s comment, click here.
For a brief biography of Henry Purcell, click here. For images of or relating to Henry Purcell, click here.
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