Both from the Ears and Mind

Linda Phyllis Austern is associate professor of musicology at Northwestern University. She is the author of Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance and editor of several books, most recently Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England (with Candace Bailey and Amanda Eubanks Winkler).

Introduction

1. Praise, Blame, and Persuasion: “Of Musicke by Way of Disputation” Praise and Dispraise (of Music): Discourse, Dialectic, Disputation
Knowledge of Music “by Witt and Understanding”
Reading as Creative Process: Toward “Places of Invention”
Constructing Arguments
Materials for Discourse
2. Debating Godly Music: Sober and Lawful Christian Use “Musica, serva Dei”: (Textual) Places for God’s Handmaid
Music to the Praise and Glory of God: “A Methodicall Gathering Together of Authorities”
Anxieties of Aurality and Homonymies of Love
Codetta: The Prosecution Rests
3. Harmony, Number, and Proportion Art and Science Abstracted from Bodies
Between Sense and Intellect: Music as Conceptual Tool
“The Worlds Musicke”
“A Simbolisme between the Elements”: (Re)appropriation across Domains
“Profound Contemplation of Secret Things”: Magic, Occult Doctrines, and Music
Hidden Harmonies of Earth and Heaven: Alchemy and Astrology
“Divine Consent”: Holy Matrimony as Harmony
4. To Please the Ear and Satisfy the Mind Explaining Musical Experience
Sound, Soul, and Sense
To Captivate the Mind: Music and Interior Process
5. “Comfortable . . . in Sicknes and in Health”: Music to Temper Self and Surroundings Music and Medicine
Music “to Preserve the Health”
Music and the Humors: Balancing the Self
Beyond Black Bile: Sorrow, Grief, and Musical Remediation   Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index