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All this is just fine, but is there explicit information evidence relating the scansion of poetry to music and dance? Examine the figure below, but look closely. The red arrows point to music, but the music is in spondee and dactyle! Thus a direct relationship between music and poetry. However, there is more! The interelationship between music and poetry is on a dance rose: a stage design of a geometrical dance pattern! Thus dance, poetry (rhetoric) and music are explicitly realated! Seems like it is enough, but there is more!
In the title page of Caroso's Nobilità di dame of 1600, we see classical columns (architecture) with bases of the columns clearly in perspective, and this book about dance has figures representing music associated with the columns, and the right base has symbols of the hour glass of time (measure) and a compass (geometry or ratios). The triumphal arch supported by the columns is the basis of the design of the theatre proscenium. Thus dance, music, poetry, mensuration, misura, harmonic proportions, architecture, and perspective theatres are all linked together. This is consciously displayed!
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