Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music is a rich, interdisciplinary investigation into the role of music and musical culture in the development of metaphysical thought in late sixteenth-, early seventeenth-century England.

Author: Katie Bank

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000169676

Category: History

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Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music is a rich, interdisciplinary investigation into the role of music and musical culture in the development of metaphysical thought in late sixteenth-, early seventeenth-century England. The book considers how music presented questions about the relationships between the mind, body, passions, and the soul, drawing out examples of domestic music that explicitly address topics of human consciousness, such as dreams, love, and sensing. Early seventeenth-century metaphysical thought is said to pave the way for the Enlightenment Self. Yet studies of the music’s role in natural philosophy has been primarily limited to symbolic functions in philosophical treatises, virtually ignoring music making’s substantial contribution to this watershed period. Contrary to prevailing narratives, the author shows why music making did not only reflect impending change in philosophical thought but contributed to its formation. The book demonstrates how recreational song such as the English madrigal confronted assumptions about reality and representation and the role of dialogue in cultural production, and other ideas linked to changes in how knowledge was built. Focusing on music by John Dowland, Martin Peerson, Thomas Weelkes, and William Byrd, this study revises historiography by reflecting on the experience of music and how music contributed to the way early modern awareness was shaped.

Katie Bank completed her doctoral thesis, 'Music and Minde: Knowledge Building in Early Seventeenth-Century English Domestic Vocal Music', at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2016, supervised by Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway) and ...

Author: Katherine Butler

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

ISBN: 9781783273713

Category: Music

Page: 344

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The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge Series Editors: Harald E. Braun (University of ... Career in 16th Century England and Ireland Angela Andreani Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music Katie ...

Author: Angela Andreani

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429536663

Category: History

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This is the first book-length study of the fascinating life of the clergyman and scholar of Welsh descent Meredith Hanmer (c.1545–1604). Hanmer became involved in the key scholarly controversies of his day, from the place of the Elizabethan Church in Christian history to the role of the 1581 Jesuit mission to England led by Edmund Campion and Robert Persons. As an army preacher in Ireland during the Nine Years War, Hanmer campaigned with the most acclaimed soldiers of his day. He nurtured connections with prominent intellectuals of his time and with the key figures of colonial government. His own career as a clergyman was colourful, involving bitter disputes with his parishioners and recurring aspersions on his character. Surprisingly, no study to date has centred on this intriguing character. The surviving evidence for Hanmer’s life and activities is unusually rich, comprising his published writings and a large body of under-exploited manuscript material. Drawing extensively on archival evidence scattered across a wide number of repositories, Dr. Andreani’s book contextualises Hanmer’s clerical activities and wide-ranging scholarship, elucidates his previously little understood career, and thus enriches our understanding of life, politics, and scholarship in the Elizabethan church.

For more information on the culture of madrigals, see Katie Bank, Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music (London: Routledge, 2020). 16 Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces (London: Thomas Este, 1595).

Author: Eleanor Chan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000461800

Category: History

Page: 304

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The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid’s Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had previously been possible. Scholarship has explored the way that the language of mathematics leaked into the literary cultures of England and the Low Countries, but until now the role of visual metaphors of making and shaping in the establishment of mathematics as a practical tool has gone unexplored. Mathematics and the Craft of Thought sheds light on the remarkable culture shift surrounding the vernacular language translations of Euclid, and the geometrical imaginary that they sought to create. It shows how the visual language of early modern European geometry was constructed by borrowing and quoting from contemporary visual culture. The verbal and visual language of this form of mathematics, far from being simply immaterial, was designed to tantalize with material connotations. This book argues that, in a very real sense, practical geometry in this period was built out of craft metaphors.

co-editor of Origins of Scientific Learning: Essays on Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (2007) which includes her essay, “Building Gender In(to) the Elizabethan Prodigy House.” In 2003, “A Widow Building: Bess of Hardwick at ...

Author: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317100904

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 398

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How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in it? These are the questions that guide this volume, which includes articles by a select group of scholars from many disciplines: Art History, Comparative Literature, English, German, History, Landscape Architecture, Music, and Women's Studies. Each essay reaches across fields, and several are written by interdisciplinary groups of authors. The essays also focus on many different places, including Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, and on texts and images that crossed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or that portrayed real and imagined people who did. Many essays investigate topics key to the ’spatial turn’ in various disciplines, such as borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.

Using echo as a historical methodology entails acknowledging the incompleteness of knowledge, and the potential for gaps in knowledge to create meanings of their own. As scholars of early modern drama are aware, for example, ...

Author: Susan L. Anderson

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319679709

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 123

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This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print. Focusing on examples where Echo herself appears as a character, this study shows how echoic techniques permeated literary, dramatic, and musical performance in the period, and puts forward echo as a model for engaging with sounds and texts from the past. Starting with sixteenth century translations of myths of Echo from Ovid and Longus, the book moves through the uses of echo in Elizabethan progress entertainments, commercial and court drama, Jacobean court masques, and prose romance. It places the work of well-known dramatists, such as Ben Jonson and John Webster, in the context of broader cultures of performance. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern drama, music, and dance.

Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England Linda Phyllis Austern, Candace Bailey, Amanda Eubanks Winkler ... greatness of Roman culture, and a “large book that claimed to contain knowledge in a visual or visualizeable form.

Author: Linda Phyllis Austern

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 9780253024978

Category: Music

Page: 480

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English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the boundaries between locations of musical performance and practice.

Thomas Blount's English dictionary of 1656 , clearly building on the earliest exemplar to include the term , defines ' Philosophie ' as The study of wisedome : a deepe knowledge in the nature of things . There are three different kindes ...

Author: Professor of Music Harvard University Suzannah Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521771919

Category: Music

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Music theory of almost all ages has relied on nature in its attempts to explain music. The understanding of what 'nature' is, however, is subject to cultural and historical differences. In exploring ways in which music theory has represented and employed natural order since the scientific revolution, this volume asks some fundamental questions not only about nature in music theory, but also the nature of music theory. In an array of different approaches, ranging from physical acoustics to theology and Lacanian psychoanalysis, these essays examine how the multifarious conceptions of nature, located variously between scientific reason and divine power, are brought to bear on music theory. They probe the changing representations and functions of nature in the service of music theory and highlight the ever-changing configurations of nature and music, as mediated by the music-theoretical discourse.

Dominic Gwynn A STUDY IN THE TRANSMISSION OF ORGAN - BUILDING KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND There is very little ... Nonetheless , from the first writings of English historians of music , lines of succession from builder to builder ...

Author: British Institute of Organ Studies

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105114066975

Category: Organ (Musical instrument)

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Building on the visits of English instrumentalists to the court under Heinrich Julius, Duke August collected volumes of dance music by Thomas Simpson and William Brade, and their German imitators Christian Hildebrandt, Johann Hermann ...

Author: SusanLewis Hammond

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351568838

Category: Music

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Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy. Like their counterparts in the world of classical learning, Renaissance music editors translated texts and reworked settings from Venetian publications, adapting them to the needs of northern audiences. Their role is most evident in the emergence of the anthology as the primary vehicle for the distribution of madrigals outside Italy. As a publication type that depended upon the judicious selection and presentation of material, the anthology showcased editorial work. Anthologies offer a valuable case study for examining the impact of editorial decision-making on the cultivation of particular styles, genres, authors and audiences. The book suggests that music editors defined the appropriation of Italian music through the same processes of adaptation, transformation and domestication evident in the broader reception of Italy north of the Alps. Through these studies, Susan Lewis Hammond's work reassesses the importance of northern Europe in the history of the madrigal and its printing. This book will be the first comprehensive study of editors as a distinct group within the network of printers, publishers, musicians and composers that brought the madrigal to northern audiences. The field of Renaissance music printing has a long and venerable scholarly tradition among musicologists and music bibliographers. This study will contribute to recent efforts to infuse these studies with new approaches to print culture that address histories of reading and listening, patronage, marketing, transmission, reception, and their cultural and political consequences.