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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957- author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages) : 5 color plates, 25 halftones, 19 line drawings.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'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 endeavours, 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. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of social change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Praise, Blame, and Persuasion: “Of Musicke by Way of Disputation”

2. Debating Godly Music: Sober and Lawful Christian Use

3. Harmony, Number, and Proportion

4. To Please the Ear and Satisfy the Mind

5. “Comfortable...in Sicknes and in Health”: Music to Temper Self and Surroundings

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

ISBN:

9780226704678

022670467X

OCLC:

1157082551