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DANTE AND MUSIC

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In the Convivio. Dante likens music to the planet Mars
JOHN STEVENS Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge taking this passage as his starting point, considers first the 'image' of music as it developed in the Divine Comedy, and secondly Dante's attitude to the practical art of song-writing.
The illustrations are sung by WILFRED BROWN (tenor)

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