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List of contents
PART I. THE PRAISE OF MUSICKE AND ITS CONTEXTS 1. Introduction 2. The Treatise: Contents and Structure 3. Sources 4. The Identity of the Author 5. The Intellectual Contexts for The Praise of Musicke 6. Editing The Praise of Musicke PART II. TEXT AND COMMENTARY 1. THE ANTIQVITIE AND ORIGINAL OF MVSICKE: FIRST GEnerally, then more particularlie set downe. 2. THE DIGNITIE OF MVSICKE PROVED BOTH by the rewardes and practise of many and most excellent men. 3. THE SVAVITIE OF MVSICKE. 4. THE EFFECTS AND OPERATION OF MVSICKE. 5. THE NECESSITIE OF MVSICKE. 6. THE VSE OF MVSICK GENERALLIE IN THE course of our life. 7. THE PARTICVLER VSE OF MVSICKE IN CIuill matters, especially in sacrifi-ces, feasts, mariages and Burials. 8. THE PARTICVLER VSE of musicke in warlike matters. 9. THE LAWFVL VSE OF MVSICKE IN THE CHVRCH confirmed by the practise of the church. 10. THE LAWFVLL VSE OF CHVRCH MVSICKE proued by authorities out of the Doctours. 11. Sentences of the Scripture, for the vse of Church Musick. 12. A REFVTATION OF OBIECTIONS AGAINST the lawful vse of Musicke in the Church.
About the author
Hyun-Ah Kim is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of two monographs, The Renaissance Ethics of Music: Singing, Contemplation and Musica humana (2015) and Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England: John Merbecke the Orator and 'The Booke of Common Praier Noted’ (1550) (2008). She has published widely on music and humanism in early modern culture.
Summary
This volume provides the first printed critical edition of The Praise of Musicke (1586), keeping the original text intact and accompanied by an analytical commentary. Against the Puritan attacks on liturgical music, The Praise of Musicke, the first apologetic treatise on music in English, epitomizes the Renaissance defense of music
