| Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England Contributor(s): Austern, Linda Phyllis (Author) |
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ISBN: 022670159X ISBN-13: 9780226701592 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 780.942 |
| LCCN: 2019045110 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music's conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change. |
Contributor Bio(s): Austern, Linda Phyllis: - Linda Phyllis Austern is associate professor of musicology at Northwestern University. She is the author of Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance and editor of several books, most recently Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England (with Candace Bailey and Amanda Eubanks Winkler). |