Broken Harmony : : Shakespeare and the Politics of Music / / Joseph M. Ortiz.

Music was a subject of considerable debate during the Renaissance. The notion that music could be interpreted in a meaningful way clashed regularly with evidence that music was in fact profoundly promiscuous in its application and effects. Subsequently, much writing in the period reflects a desire t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 6 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Disciplining Music
  • 1. Titus Andronicus and the Production of Musical Meaning
  • 2. "Her speech is nothing": Mad Speech and the Female Musician
  • 3. Teaching Music: The Rule of Allegory
  • 4. Impolitic Noise: Resisting Orpheus from Julius Caesar to The Tempest
  • 5. Shakespeare's Idolatry: Psalms and Hornpipes in The Winter's Tale
  • 6. The Reforming of Reformation: Milton's A Maske
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index