Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Constructions of Musical Meaning -- 2 Lives -- 3 The Universities -- 4 Urban Cultures -- 5 The Impact of Newton -- Part II -- 6 'Divinely Natural Magick': Enthusiasm and Aesthetics in an Enchanted Universe -- 7 'Ancient Harmonies': Music and the Prisca Theologia -- 8 Druids -- 9 The Genius of Nature -- 10 The Restoration of All Things -- Editors' Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- Music in Society and Culture
Summary
During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many