O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, And the Mad on the Seventeenth-century English Stage - Couverture rigide

Winkler, Amanda Eubanks

 
9780253348050: O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, And the Mad on the Seventeenth-century English Stage
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0253348056 ISBN 13 : 9780253348050
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered from bodily disorders (melancholics, madmen, and madwomen). While these theoretical correspondences seem straightforward, in theatrical practice the musical portrayals of disorderly characters were multivalent and often ambiguous.

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note focuses on the various ways that theatrical music represented disorderly subjects-those who presented either a direct or metaphorical threat to the health of the English kingdom in 17th-century England. Using theater music to examine narratives of social history, Winkler demonstrates how music reinscribed and often resisted conservative, political, religious, gender, and social ideologies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Amanda Eubanks Winkler is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. She specializes in early music.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253348056
ISBN 13 
9780253348050
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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