Household Songs

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-178
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Acoustic Space ◽  
Iphigenia At Aulis

This chapter illuminates the affective significance of music and song within household drama, a genre that early modern scholarship has found difficult to detach from the page and that continues to be undervalued in performance terms. Drawing on the notion of the closet, understood both as an architectural and acoustic space within the early modern household and as a generic marker for women’s dramatic productions, it explores the range of musical practices encompassed under the broad category of “household plays.” Focusing on Jane Lumley’s Iphigenia at Aulis, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, and Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory, it then considers how recent staging experiments help to illuminate textual markers of music and song that have too often been silenced.

Architecture for Music : Sonorous Spaces in Sacred Buildings in Renaissance and Baroque Rome

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Bellini
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Sacred Architecture ◽  
New Churches ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Dimensional Shape ◽  
Visual Characteristic ◽  
Three Dimensional Shape ◽  
Architectural Spaces

Architectural spaces are usually considered only in their visual and threedimensional character. However, the proper experience of space is multisensory. Sonority is undoubtedly the non-visual characteristic that most affects architecture, influencing its three-dimensional shape, and the size and distribution of its individual parts. Early modern sacred architecture is a case in point. Focusing on Rome and the development of architecture in relation to musical practices, this article demonstrates how architectural forms evolved through a process that ranged from provisional installations to the design of entirely new churches and oratories. In the Baroque period, these religious structures were conceived as synaesthetic spaces of sonority and architecture, in which vision, hearing and liturgical acts merged in an expressive unity.

scholarly journals THE DISSEMINATION AND USE OF EUROPEAN MUSIC BOOKS IN EARLY MODERN ASIA

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 39-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. M. Irving
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Musical Scores ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Musical Practices

Musical commodities frequently accompanied European explorers, soldiers, merchants and missionaries who travelled to Asia in the early modern period. During this time, numerous theoretical treatises and musical scores – both printed and manuscript – were disseminated throughout Asia. This article examines the dissemination and use of European musical works in early modern China, Japan and the Philippines, before identifying the titles of scores and treatises so far known to have been present in these territories. In order to measure the relative success of European missionaries in transplanting music to early modern Asia, it then takes as case studies the local production of three significant sources of European music during the seventeenth century: (1) the earliest example of printed European music from Asia, produced by the Jesuit press at Nagasaki in 1605; (2) a Chinese treatise on European music that was commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor in 1713 and printed the following decade; and (3) a 116-page manuscript treatise, compiled by an unidentified Jesuit in late seventeenth-century Manila, which synthesises the most current European music theory as well as commenting on local musical practices.

scholarly journals “Bella festa si fa ncelu”: Jesuits and Musical Traditions in the Heart of the Mediterranean

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-436
Author(s):  
Ignazio Macchiarella ◽  
Roberto Milleddu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Significant Case ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
The One ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

Still today, in Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, the three main islands of the western Mediterranean, there is a great flourishing of orally transmitted devotional songs which can be traced back to the acculturation processes brought about by Jesuit missionaries in the early modern era. Adopting an ethnomusicological approach, our essay focuses on some significant case studies, aiming to contribute to the discussion about Jesuits and music both in a contemporary and in a historical perspective. On the one hand, we observe the special consideration given today to some widespread popular religious songs that are commonly regarded as “historical Jesuit heritage.” On the other hand, we investigate historical sources, looking for traces of past music practices and hints about the relationships between Jesuit missionaries and traditional musicians. Rather than provide definitive answers, our purpose is to raise questions about the inherent complexity of the interpretation of past musical practices, and about the thought-provoking interconnections between these practices and the variegated music scenarios of the present day.

Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
VELCHERU NARAYANA RAO ◽  
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
South India ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Broad Category

AbstractThis essays deals with a neglected and significant strand of Indian political thought by describing and analysing the corpus known as nīti in the context of medieval and early modern South India (in particular with reference to the Telugu-speaking region). Works of nīti are presented here within a larger context, as they evolve from the medieval Andhra of the Kakatiyas into the Vijayanagara period, the Nayakas, and beyond. They are also opposed and contrasted to other texts written within the broad category of dharmashāstra, which seem to deal with a far more conservative project for the management of society and politics within a caste-based framework. Authors and compilers dealt with include Baddena and Madiki Singana, but also the celebrated emperor-poet Krishnadevaraya (r. 1509–29). An argument is made for the continued relevance of these texts for the conduct of politics in South Asia, into and beyond the colonial period.

Early modern receptions of Iphigenia at Aulis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-298
Author(s):  
Robert S Miola
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Latin Translation ◽  
Jean Racine ◽  
Rhetorical Figures ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Iphigenia At Aulis

Abstract The sacrifice of Iphigenia, appearing influentially in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, assumes various forms in early modern translation, reading, and adaptation. Early modern receptions variously constrict, domesticate, Romanize, and Christianize the story. Publication in Latin, especially in Erasmus’ translation (1506) transposes Greek linguistic and cultural referents to later hermeneutics, rendering mysterious ancient elements into familiar Roman analogues — Stoic ideals, fortuna, prudentia, and the like. Caspar Stiblin’s Latin translation (1562) and Gabriel Harvey’s copious marginalia in his copy of Erasmus’ translation show that constriction and domestication often take the form of fragmentation of the text into sententiae, or wise sayings. The search for rhetorical figures, political maxims, or moral lessons generates many Christian applications and culminates in Buchanan’s biblical reworking of Iphigenia’s story in Jephthes, wherein Artemis gives way to the Judaeo-Christian god and Iphigenia, here Iphis, becomes a type of Christ. The Vernacular Adaptations of Jane Lumley, Jean Racine, and Abel Boyer continue to dismantle the heroic ethos of Euripides play and re-imagine the story: Achilles dwindles into a romantic lead, Agamemnon, into a vicious ruler and father, and Iphigenia becomes a pious and submissive daughter.

Stones, Snowflakes, and Insect Eggs

Nuncius ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-363
Author(s):  
Rebecca Zorach
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Property ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Broad Context ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Insect Eggs ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Modern Europe

Abstract This paper takes as its broad context the evolution of the place of geometry in ways of thinking about nature and art in early modern Europe. Considering a set of questions about how Nature creates geometric forms, particularly in minerals but also in other kinds of natural beings, the paper explores the concept of “figure” as it appears in Conrad Gessner’s De rerum fossilium, where figure appears as a broad category that cuts across abstract geometry, artifactual images, and shape appearing within natural entities. Gessner is placed within changing ideas about the role of geometry as an intellectual pursuit or, rather, a mechanical property of nature conceived as inanimate and rule-bound.

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