Both from the ears & mind : thinking about music in early modern England / Linda Phyllis Austern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--England--16th century--History and criticism.

Music.

England.

Music--England--17th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Both from the ears and mind

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Summary:

"As recent scholarship has begun to register, music during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries occupied a much wider intellectual and cultural position than it did in later centuries, including the present one. Linda Austern's study aims to restore music to its former scope and give us a renewed sense of its role and effects in early-modern English society. The book brings to life the kinds of educated debates and conversations that would accompany musical performances or animate intellectual gatherings, and engages with the various genres of writings about music that circulated at the time. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Praise, Blame, and Persuasion: "Of Musicke by Way of Disputation" p. 7

Praise and Dispraise (of Music): Discourse, Dialectic, Disputation p. 10

Knowledge of Music "by Witt and Understanding" p. 19

Reading as Creative Process: Toward "Places of Invention" p. 25

Constructing Arguments p. 33

Materials for Discourse p. 36

2 Debating Godly Music: Sober and Lawful Christian Use p. 41

"Musica, serva Dei": (Textual) Places for God's Handmaid p. 44

Music to the Praise and Glory of God: "A Methodicall Gathering Together of Authorities" p. 53

Anxieties of Aurality and Homonymies of Love p. 67

Codetta: The Prosecution Rests p. 85

3 Harmony, Number, and Proportion p. 89

Art and Science Abstracted from Bodies p. 91

Between Sense and Intellect: Music as Conceptual Tool p. 98

"The Worlds Musicke" p. 106

"A Simbolisme between the Elements": (Re)appropriation across Domains p. 114

"Profound Contemplation of Secret Things": Magic, Occult Doctrines, and Music p. 127

Hidden Harmonies of Earth and Heaven: Alchemy and Astrology p. 136

"Divine Consent": Holy Matrimony as Harmony p. 147

4 To Please the Ear and Satisfy the Mind p. 155

Explaining Musical Experience p. 160

Sound, Soul, and Sense p. 170

To Captivate the Mind: Music and Interior Process p. 193

5 "Comfortable ... in Sicknes and in Health": Music to Temper Self and Surroundings p. 217

Music and Medicine p. 221

Music "to Preserve the Health" p. 225

Music and the Humors: Balancing the Self p. 237

Beyond Black Bile: Sorrow, Grief, and Musical Remediation p. 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226701592

022670159X

OCLC:

1117630821

Publisher Number:

99984888818