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Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Hardcover)
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Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
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The complex relationship between myths and music is here
investigated. 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 arguments
about the uses, effects, morality and preferred styles of music in
sources as diverse as theoretical treatises, defences or critiques
of music, art, sermons, educational literature and books of moral
conduct. Newly written literary stories too were believed capable
of moral instruction and influence, and were a medium through which
ideas about music could be both explored and transmitted. How
authors interpreted and weaved together these traditional stories,
or created their own, reveals much about changing attitudes across
the period. Looking beyond the well-known figure of Orpheus, this
collection explores the myriad stories that shaped not only musical
thought, but also its styles, techniques and practices. The essays
show that music itself performed and created knowledge in ways
parallel to myth, and worked in tandem with old and new tales to
construct social, political and philosophical views. This
relationship was not static, however; as the Enlightenment dawned,
the once authoritative gods became comic characters and myth became
a medium forridicule. Overall, the book provides a foundation for
exploring myth and story throughout medieval and early modern
culture, and facilitating further study into the Enlightenment and
beyond. KATHERINE BUTLER is a seniorlecturer in music at
Northumbria University; SAMANTHA BASSLER is a musicologist of
cultural studies, a teaching artist, and an adjunct professor in
the New York metropolitan area. Contributors: Jamie Apgar, Katie
Bank, Samantha Bassler, Katherine Butler, Elina G. Hamilton, Sigrid
Harris, Ljubica Ilic, Erica Levenson, John MacInnis, Patrick
McMahon, Aurora Faye Martinez, Jacomien Prins, Tim Shephard, Jason
Stoessel, Ferdia J. Stone-Davis, Amanda Eubanks Winkler.
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