Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains : : Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction /

Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains : : Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction / / ed. by Wolfram R. Keller, Cornelia Wilde.

Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound - and new ways of conceptualizing the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Butler, Katherine,
Gouk, Penelope,
Keller, Wolfram R.,
Prins, Jacomien,
Swanson, Barbara,
Wilde, Cornelia,
HerausgeberIn:
Keller, Wolfram R.,
Wilde, Cornelia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Transformationen der Antike , 34
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Physical Description:1 online resource (156 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture Between Sensibility and Abstraction
  • Disharmonic Spheres: Metapoetic Noise in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls
  • In Search of the Word: Speech-like Chants and Confessional Identity in Counter-Reformation Mission to England
  • Patrizi’s and Mersenne’s Critiques of Ficino’s Interpretation of the Harmony of the Spheres
  • Divine Harmony, Demonic Afflictions, and Bodily Humours: Two Tales of Musical Healing in Early Modern England
  • The Powers and Effects of Music: English Theories from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
  • »Cecilia’s Name does all our Numbers grace«: Musico-poetics in Joseph Addison’s St Cecilia’s Day Odes
  • Index of Names

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