Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains write by Cornelia Wilde. This book was released on 2021-05-10. Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound - and new ways of conceptualizing the world. From the perspectives of philosophy, literary scholarship, and musicology, the contributions consider music's ambivalent position between mathematical abstraction and sensibility, between the metaphysics of harmony and the physics of sound. Essays examine the late medieval and early modern history of ideas concerning the nature of music and cosmic harmony, and trace their transformations in early modern musico-literary discourses. Within this framework, essays further offer original readings of important philosophical, literary, and musicological works. This interdisciplinary volume brings into focus the transformation of a predominant Renaissance worldview and of music's scientific, theological, literary, as well as cultural conceptions and functions in the early modern period, and will be of interest to scholars of the classics, philosophy, musicology, as well as literary and cultural studies.
Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains
Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains write by Cornelia Wilde. This book was released on 2021-05-10. Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound - and new ways of conceptualizing the world. From the perspectives of philosophy, literary scholarship, and musicology, the contributions consider music's ambivalent position between mathematical abstraction and sensibility, between the metaphysics of harmony and the physics of sound. Essays examine the late medieval and early modern history of ideas concerning the nature of music and cosmic harmony, and trace their transformations in early modern musico-literary discourses. Within this framework, essays further offer original readings of important philosophical, literary, and musicological works. This interdisciplinary volume brings into focus the transformation of a predominant Renaissance worldview and of music's scientific, theological, literary, as well as cultural conceptions and functions in the early modern period, and will be of interest to scholars of the classics, philosophy, musicology, as well as literary and cultural studies.
The Universalist and Ladies' Repository
The Universalist and Ladies' Repository - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Universalist and Ladies' Repository write by . This book was released on 1842. The Universalist and Ladies' Repository available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The English Spirit
The English Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Spirit write by Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones. This book was released on 1982. The English Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thoughtful book, originally published in 1935, explores the qualities of the English people in relation to other European peoples. With many examples from Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and other great English authors.
Melting the Venusberg
Melting the Venusberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melting the Venusberg write by Heidi Epstein. This book was released on 2004-10-15. Melting the Venusberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book begins with a pointed critique of the foundations of the understanding of Western music: that music from Pythagoras to the Renaissance has been viewed as the source and model of order in the universe and in society. Unfortunately that order was rigidly hierarchical, so that over the centuries music reinforced established social prejudices, particularly those against women. Nowhere was this more evident than in religious music that was regarded by male ecclesiastics and scholars as the instrument of choice for taming hysterical female eruptions. Through her mordant commentary on a rich selection of texts by major thinkers from two millennia of Christian theology, Heidi Epstein shows in the first part of Melting the Venusberg that music as the erotic embodiment of human engenderment has been ignored or suppressed, while music as the expression of transcendent harmony, order, and restraint has been extolled. The second re-constructive part of Melting the Venusberg draws on ignored sources and lost tropes from the Christian tradition as well as on insights from the music and thought of historical and contemporary woman composers and performers from Hildegard of Bingen and Lucrezia Vizzana to Rosetta Tharpe and Diamanda Galas. Through this recuperative synthesis, music's theological significance changes keys, as it moves beyond its symbolic function as divinely ordained, harmonious microcosm into more dissonant metaphorical registers. Those who have ears to hear will be delighted.
