Title Eros and music in early modern culture and literature / by Claire Bardelmann

Published New York : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 44 Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 44 Contents Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Architectonics -- 1 'The Bond of All Things': Neoplatonic Ideas of Eros and Music in the Early Modern Episteme -- Theories of Union: Discourses of Eros and Music -- Classical and Christian Theories of Eros and Music -- Speculative Music and the Neoplatonic Eros as Binding Agents -- Musical Harmony in the Microcosm and in the Political Body -- Unity as Poetic Principle -- 2 Empowering Eros: Embodied Harmonies and Erotic Mediation -- Eros and Music as Mediating Agents -- Sensual Love and Practical Music as Educational Agents -- Practical Music as Love's Preferred Agent -- The Ambiguity of Music's Erotic Action -- The Dual Action of Music and the Erotic Ear -- 3 'Love's Proper Exercise': Eros and the Dance -- Erotic Action and Temperate Dancing -- The Degradation of the Cosmic Dance: "Sellenger's Round, or The Beginning of the World" -- The Erotic Dancing Body -- The Ambivalent Rhetorical Status of the Dancing Body -- 4 The Ambivalent Lute -- The Orphic Lute -- The Political Lute -- The Erotic Lute -- The Fair Lutenist -- PART II Poetics -- 5 Ideas of Eros in the Early Modern Lute Ayre and Madrigal -- The Ethos of the Musical Genres and the Two Eros -- Ideas of Eros in Madrigal and Lute Song Lyrics -- 'Infinite Volumes': Miscellanies of Love in Elizabethan Madrigal and Lute Ayre Lyrics -- Neoplatonic Ideas of Love in the Lyrics -- The Voice as Erotic Instrument -- Rhetoric and Eroticism -- 6 Erotic and Rhetorical Trivializations of Music in the English Epyllion -- Music and Eros in the English Epyllion -- Natural Music and the Harmonic World -- Erotic Trivializations of Music in the Epyllion -- 'Love is Forme': Fiction and Friction -- 7 Desire as Palimpsest, or the Myth of Philomel in The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus Philomel as Musical Myth -- Expressing the Unspeakable: Lavinia as Philomel -- Philomel, an 'Innocent Siren'? -- Philomel as Failed Orpheus: Dismembering the Political Body -- 8 Specularity or Speculation? Echo and Eros in Venus and Adonis -- Echo/echo and the Music of the Spheres -- Transformative Encounters: Echo and the Twofold Nature of Eros -- Echo and Eros in Venus and Adonis -- The Speculating Echo -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism Music -- 17th century -- History and criticism. Love in music -- History -- 16th century Love in music -- History -- 17th century Sex in music -- History -- 16th century Sex in music -- History -- 17th century MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. MUSIC -- Reference. Love in music Music Sex in music Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429018299 0429018290 9780429507762 0429507763 9780429018305 0429018304 9780429018282 0429018282

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