Plague and Music in the Renaissance

Using a wide variety of primary sources, this book explores Renaissance musical responses to pestilence. It will fascinate musicologists and historians interested in the role of music in the fight against plague by revealing how medical knowledge, spiritual beliefs and public rituals surrounding the disease informed musical composition.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Medicine for the body and soul; 2. Sympathetic resonance, sympathetic contagion; 3. Devotions on the street and in the home; 4. The cult of St Sebastian; 5. Madrigals, Mithridates, and the plague of Milan.

About the author

Remi Chiu is Assistant Professor of Music at Loyola University Maryland. He specialises in Renaissance music history and has an interest in the history of medicine and disability studies.

Summary

Using a wide variety of primary sources, this book explores Renaissance musical responses to pestilence. It will fascinate musicologists and historians interested in the role of music in the fight against plague by revealing how medical knowledge, spiritual beliefs and public rituals surrounding the disease informed musical composition.

Product details

• Authors: Remi Chiu, Remi (Loyola University Maryland) Chiu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781107521421
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52142-1
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Europe, MUSIC / General, History of Medicine, Renaissance style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Occult Studies, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music