Both from the Ears and Mind : Thinking about Music in Early Modern England /: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Linda Phyllis Austern.
• Authors: Austern, Linda Phyllis
• Contents: Introduction 1. Praise, Blame, and Persuasion: 'Of Musicke by Way of Disputation' Praise and Dispraise (of Music): Discourse, Dialectic, Disputation Knowledge of Music 'by Witt and Understanding' Reading as Creative Process: Toward 'Places of Invention' Constructing Arguments Materials for Discourse 2. Debating Godly Music: Sober and Lawful Christian Use 'Musica, serva Dei': (Textual) Places for God's Handmaid Music to the Praise and Glory of God: 'A Methodicall Gathering Together of Authorities' Anxieties of Aurality and Homonymies of Love Codetta: The Prosecution Rests 3. Harmony, Number, and Proportion Art and Science Abstracted from Bodies Between 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 Music Hidden Harmonies of Earth and Heaven: Alchemy and Astrology 'Divine Consent': Holy Matrimony as Harmony 4. To Please the Ear and Satisfy the Mind Explaining Musical Experience Sound, Soul, and Sense To Captivate the Mind: Music and Interior Process 5. 'Comfortable . . . in Sicknes and in Health': Music to Temper Self and Surroundings Music and Medicine Music 'to Preserve the Health' Music and the Humors: Balancing the Self Beyond Black Bile: Sorrow, Grief, and Musical Remediation Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: Music -- General; Music -- History & Criticism; History -- Renaissance
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226704678
• Related ISBNs: 9780226701592
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