Both from the Ears and Mind

Thinking about Music in Early Modern England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music’s conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-07-15
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226701592

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Introduction1. Praise, Blame, and Persuasion: “Of Musicke by Way of Disputation” Praise and Dispraise (of Music): Discourse, Dialectic, DisputationKnowledge of Music “by Witt and Understanding”Reading as Creative Process: Toward “Places of Invention”Constructing ArgumentsMaterials for Discourse2. Debating Godly Music: Sober and Lawful Christian Use “Musica, serva Dei”: (Textual) Places for God’s HandmaidMusic to the Praise and Glory of God: “A Methodicall Gathering Together of Authorities”Anxieties of Aurality and Homonymies of LoveCodetta: The Prosecution Rests3. Harmony, Number, and Proportion Art and Science Abstracted from BodiesBetween Sense and Intellect: Music as Conceptual Tool“The Worlds Musicke”“A Simbolisme between the Elements”: (Re)appropriation across Domains“Profound Contemplation of Secret Things”: Magic, Occult Doctrines, and MusicHidden Harmonies of Earth and Heaven: Alchemy and Astrology“Divine Consent”: Holy Matrimony as Harmony4. To Please the Ear and Satisfy the Mind Explaining Musical ExperienceSound, Soul, and SenseTo Captivate the Mind: Music and Interior Process5. “Comfortable . . . in Sicknes and in Health”: Music to Temper Self and Surroundings Music and MedicineMusic “to Preserve the Health”Music and the Humors: Balancing the SelfBeyond Black Bile: Sorrow, Grief, and Musical Remediation AcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

“If anyone in England from 1500 to 1700 has written about music, Austern has read it. Both from the Ears and Mind is a magnum opus that draws together twenty-five years of research and publication. No existing scholarship on ideas about music in early modern England has the range and the depth of Austern’s. Musicology scholars will find in Austern a resource that will challenge and complicate received ideas about early modern tonality, harmony, rhythm, and performance.”