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Page 72
... ancient Gaelic manuscripts ( e.g. , The Annals of the Four Masters ) made possible the reading of Ireland's ancient literature . Heroic tales caught the imagination of the educated classes . Anglo - Irish poets experimented with verse ...
... ancient Gaelic manuscripts ( e.g. , The Annals of the Four Masters ) made possible the reading of Ireland's ancient literature . Heroic tales caught the imagination of the educated classes . Anglo - Irish poets experimented with verse ...
Page 457
... ancient and medieval times . More specifically the term refers to a mixture introduced by the Byzantine Greeks in the 7th century . The employment of in- cendiary materials in war is of ancient origin ; many writers of antiquity refer ...
... ancient and medieval times . More specifically the term refers to a mixture introduced by the Byzantine Greeks in the 7th century . The employment of in- cendiary materials in war is of ancient origin ; many writers of antiquity refer ...
Page 460
... Ancient Greek was a pitched language , so melody had to be an outgrowth of the natural inflections of the spoken lan- guage . Greek vowels had long and short values that corresponded to long and short notes in the musical settings ...
... Ancient Greek was a pitched language , so melody had to be an outgrowth of the natural inflections of the spoken lan- guage . Greek vowels had long and short values that corresponded to long and short notes in the musical settings ...
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