Description
Book SynopsisRevising our understanding of music's relationship to language and literature in Renaissance England.
Trade ReviewOrtiz's goal is to reexamine all the concepts related to and about music in Renaissance England and specifically to argue that Shakespeare challenges many of the concepts that were carried over from medieval notions and viewpoints.... It is a fascinating approach and historical perspective that has been lost on previous scholarship in this area.... This is an important contribution to musicological, historical, and Shakespearean studies.
-- Bradford Lee Eden * Sixteenth Century Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disciplining Music
1. Titus Andronicus and the Production of Musical Meaning
2. "Her speech is nothing": Mad Speech and the Female Musician
3. Teaching Music: The Rule of Allegory
4. Impolitic Noise: Resisting Orpheus from Julius Caesar to The Tempest
5. Shakespeare's Idolatry: Psalms and Hornpipes in The Winter's Tale
6. The Reforming of Reformation: Milton's A MaskeSelected Bibliography
Index
