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Music, myth and story in medieval and early modern culture /

Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and early modern musical culture. Far from merely offering material for musical settings, authoritative tales from classical mythology, ancient history and the Bible were treated as foundations for musical knowledge. Such myths were cited in support of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Butler, Katherine (Music tutor) (Editor ), Bassler, Samantha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2019.
Colección:Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Music and the myth of Apollo's grove / John MacInnis
  • The consolation of philosophy and the "gentle" remedy of music / Fe?rdia 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 iconography of secular song in the late Middle Ages / Jason Stoessel
  • Foolish Midas : representing musical judgement and moral judgement in Italy c. 1520 / Tim Shephard and Patrick McMahon
  • Marsilio Ficino and Girolamo Cardano under Orpheus's spell / Jacomien Prins
  • Origin myths, genealogies and inventors : defining the nature of music in early modern England / Katherine Butler
  • How to sing like angles : 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.