O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage by Amanda Eubanks Winkler

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

Amanda Eubanks Winkler

248 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)

music informative medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

In the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murdere...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...