Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

List of contents

Introduction
Music and the Myth of Apollo's Grove - John MacInnis
The Consolation of Philosophy and the 'Gentle' Remedy of Music - Férdia J Stone-Davis
And in England, There are Singers: Grafting Oneself into the Origins of Music - Elina G. Hamilton
The Harmonious Blacksmith, Lady Music, and Minerva: The Iconographyof Secular Song in the Late Middle Ages - Jason Stoessel
Foolish Midas: Representing Musical Judgement and Moral Judgement in Italy c.1520 - Tim Shephard
Marsilio Ficino and Girolamo Cardano under Orpheus's Spell - Jacomien Prins
Origin Myths, Genealogies, and Inventors: Defining the Nature of Musicin Early Modern England - Katherine Butler
How to Sing like Angels: Isaiah, Ignatius of Antioch, and Protestant Worship in England - Jamie Apgar
In Pursuit of Echo: Sound, Space, and the History of the Self - Ljubica Ilic
Ophelia's Mad Songs and Performing Story in Early Modern England - Samantha Bassler
Dangerous Beauty: Stories of Singing Women in Early Modern Italy - Sigrid Harris
'Fantastic Spirits': Myth and Satire in the Ayres of Thomas Weelkes - Katie Bank
Feeling Fallen: A Re-telling of the Biblical Myth of the Fall in a Musical Adaptation of Marvell's 'A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda' - Aurora Faye Martinez
'Armida's Picture we from Tasso Drew'?: The Rinaldo and Armida Story in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Operatic Entertainments - Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Translating Myth Through Tunes: Ebenezer Forrest's Ballad Opera Adaptation of Louis Fuzelier's Momus Fabuliste (1719-29) - Erica Levenson
Bibliography

About the author

Katherine Butler, Samantha Bassler

Summary

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Bassler, Katherine Butler, Elina G. Hamilton, John Macinnis, Ferdia J Stone-Davis
• Assisted by: Samantha Bassler (Editor), Samantha (Author) Bassler (Editor), Katherine Butler (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781783273713
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-371-3
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 164 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 752 g
• Illustrations: 10 colour, 5 b/w, 7 line illus.
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Renais; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music; Studies in Medieval and Renais
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Renaissance, Europa, Mittelalterlicher Stil, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus