Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Sommario

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
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Info autore

Katherine Butler, Samantha Bassler

Riassunto

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Samantha Bassler, Katherine Butler, Elina G. Hamilton, John Macinnis, Ferdia J Stone-Davis
• Con la collaborazione di: Samantha Bassler (Editore), Samantha (Author) Bassler (Editore), Katherine Butler (Editore)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781783273713
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-371-3
• Pagine: 342
• Dimensioni: 242 mm x 164 mm x 24 mm
• Peso: 752 g
• Illustrazioni: 10 colour, 5 b/w, 7 line illus.
• Serie: Studies in Medieval and Renais; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music; Studies in Medieval and Renais
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Englisch, Renaissance, Europa, Mittelalterlicher Stil, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus