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O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

Winkler, Amanda Eubanks

Hardcover

OperaMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0253348056
ISBN13: 9780253348050
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.52
Language: English

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.

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