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Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Butler, Katherine
Bassler, Samantha
Macinnis, John

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, Book 19

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ISBN10: 1783273712
ISBN13: 9781783273713
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Mar 15 2019
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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