Show Summary Details
(p.373) Index
(p.373) Index
Pages numbers in italics refer to illustrations and musical examples.
acoustical theory, 126
affect, 68, 163–64, 173, 178–80, 188, 204, 208, 216, 235, 240, 253–54, 257, 263;
human voice, affective power of, 203;
affection, 34, 113, 163, 188, 199, 209–12, 226–28, 231, 234–36, 241–42, 250, 256, 265–67;
of the heart, 68–69;
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius, 12–13, 55, 57, 60, 72, 74, 113, 132, 137–38, 166, 197, 204–5, 210, 303n132
alchemy, 128–30, 140, 223;
as defined, 137;
detractors of, 137;
esoteric aspects of, 137;
magic, connection to, 136;
quackery, as epitome of, 137;
secrecy, as doctrine of, 138
Allison, Richard, 231
Alsted, Johann Heinrich, Encyclopaedia, 155
Ambrose, Saint, 44
Aristotle, 12, 17–21, 28, 30–31, 33, 40, 43–44, 59, 97, 98, 108–9, 111, 113, 138, 163, 172, 174–75, 177, 205, 207, 225, 228, 230, 233, 237, 247, 249;
De Anima, 210;
astrology, 97–98, 128–30, 147, 210, 223;
agriculture and husbandry, 140;
and astronomy, 138–39;
definition of, 139;
detractors of, 137;
and divination, 140;
magic, connection to, 136;
as morally questionable, 146;
numbers, rooted in, 140
Attey, John, 253
Bacon, Francis, 26, 98, 101, 132, 140–41, 172–77, 183, 184, 188–89, 194–95, 200–201, 214, 238, 255, 265–66;
Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, 221–22;
Essays, 1
Barthes, Roland, 71
Bateson, Thomas, Second Set of Madrigales, 230
Baxter, Richard, 75
Bedford, Countess of (Lucy [Harrington] Russell), 263
Bennet, John, 266
Bible in Englyshe, 48
Birchensha, John, 160, 170; Discourse of the Principles of the Practical & Mathematicall Partes of Musick, 115; Templum Musicum, 155, 156
Bloom, Gina, 3
Boethius, 12, 20, 59, 95, 99, 105, 106, 108, 113, 124, 138, 140–41, 144, 155, 163, 166, 168, 240, 309n3;
Boleyn, Anne, 251
Brady, Nicholas, 192
Bray, Roger, 95
Brett, Philip, 8
Brokaw, Katherine Steele, 49
Browne, Thomas, 148–50
Bruno, Giordano, 207
Byrd, William, 7–10, 18, 20, 23, 77, 151; “A gratification unto Master John Case,” 8; Psalmes, sonets, & songs of sadness and pietie, 54, 230, 233; Songs of Sundrie Natures, 59
Calvin, John, 45
capriccio, 214
Carey, Henry. See Hunsdon, Baron (Henry Carey)
Cartari, Vincenzo, 143
Casa, Giovanni della, Galateo, 31
Casaubon, Meric, 72
Catholicism, 131
Cawdray, Robert, 26–29
Cecilia, Saint, 87
Chambers, John, Treatise against Judicial Astrologie, 146
Chapel Royal, 50
Chappell, William, 3
Charles I, 198
Charles II, 146
Charron, Pierre, 35
Chichester, Arthur, 230–31
Christian Church, musical heritage of, 43
cithara, 122
Clement of Alexandria, 17
Cockeram, Henry, 139–40
cognitive theory, 67
commendation of Musicke, A, 23–25
commonplaces, 2, 19, 24, 28–29, 32–34, 38, 44–45, 53–55, 57, 64, 72, 75, 85, 122, 157, 160, 163, 169, 235;
as term, 30–31
composition, 8–9, 20, 76–79, 85, 95, 199, 213, 253;
as composed, 141–42;
fantasy, association with, 212
concord, 59, 91, 94, 107–8, 111, 122, 132–33, 141, 146–47, 149, 151, 155, 158, 160, 162, 165, 168, 199, 201, 203;
vs. discord, 103;
Copenhaver, Brian, 3
Corkine, William, 253
cornett, 157
Culpeper, Nicholas, 222
Danyel, John, 253
Dee, John, 97, 113, 119–20, 130–31, 136, 139–40;
musica humana, and occult sympathies, combining of, 121–22
De musica, 17
Denny, Edward, 212
Desainliens, Claude, 49–50
diabolism, 129
divinity, 3, 26, 87, 99, 100–101, 108–9, 115, 120, 126, 148, 158–59, 162, 168–69, 171, 201, 208, 217, 224, 234;
and magic, 132;
and marriage, 149;
mathematical science, 166;
and medicine, 223;
and music, 132
Dow, Robert, 19–20
Dowland, John, 107, 169, 197, 253, 297n67;
First Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1–2;
“Flow My Tears,” 262;
Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 263;
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, Divine Weekes and Workes, 239
Dudley, Robert. See Leicester, Earl of (Robert Dudley)
DuJon, François, Painting of the Ancients, 100
Durandus, Guillelmus, 57
Edwards, Richard, “In commendation of Musick,” 158–59
Edward VI, 52
Elisabeth of Bohemia, 209
England, 3, 11, 13–14, 17, 23, 44, 47, 49, 52–53, 57, 72, 85, 90, 113, 128, 130–32, 137–41, 146, 171–72, 184–85, 212, 217, 250;
Catholic minority in, 51;
Reform thought in, 58;
religious immigrants in, 51;
English Jesuit College, 51
Erasmus, 57
Euclid, Elements of Geometry, 97
Eusebius of Caesaria, 122
exordium, 11
fantasy, 212–16
Farmer, John, First Set of English Madrigals, 143–44
Ferrand, Jacques, 249
Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony, 150
Finney, Gretchen Ludke, 3
Florio, John, 36–37
Fludd, Robert, 113, 115, 147, 208;
cosmic harmony, notions of, 126;
Tomus secundus de supernaturali…, 209;
Folkerth, Wes, 3
Ford, Thomas, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, 14
Foxe, John, 32
Gaffurius, Franchinus, 99
Galileo, 200–201
Gassendi, Pierre, 126
Gibson, Anthony, 144
Giraldi, Gregorio, Historiae poetarum tam Graecorum quam Latinorum, 18
Godfridus, 143
Grassineau, James, Musical Dictionary, 213–14
Grimeston, Edward, 207
Haddon, Walter, 15
Hakewell, George, 113–14
Harington, John, 189
harmony, 20, 31, 38, 45, 54, 79, 82, 84–85, 91, 95–96, 100–101, 106–8, 111–13, 121–22, 126, 132, 134, 142–43, 147–48, 153, 160, 178, 190, 195, 201, 205, 218, 220, 228, 254, 256, 262;
building design, 117;
mathematical laws of, 191;
and skepticism, 126
Hatton, Christopher, 230–31
Herbert, Mary Sidney, 264
Hermes Trismegistus, 131–32
Hilliard, Nicholas, 243
Hilton, John, Ayres or Fa La’s, 254
Hoby, Margaret, 233
Holborne, Antony, 262–63;
The Cittharn Schoole, 1;
“The Countess of Pembroke’s Funerals,” 264;
Pavans, Galliards, Almains, and other short Æirs, 257
Holder, William, 211–12
Hole, William, 151–52
Hollander, John, 3
Holyday, Barten, Technogamia, 253
Hooker, Richard, 74
hornbooks, 29
Howard, Phillip, 62–63
human voice, 204
Hume, Tobias, 19, 21;
First Part of Ayres, 14;
“I Am Melancholy,” 263;
“Pashion of Musicke,” 236;
Poeticall Musicke, 212;
“Spirit of Gambo,” 199
humors, 142, 159, 196, 204, 228, 236, 239, 246, 249, 254, 265–66;
humoral medicine, 238;
humoral theory, 238;
Hunsdon, Baron (Henry Carey), 58–59
Iamblichus, 113
iatromathematics, 128
Ireland, 122
Isidore of Seville, 59
Jerome, Saint, 55
John Chrysostom, Saint, in Psalmos, 59
“Jovial Songs,” 251
Jupiter, 251
Juvenal, 17
Kabbalah, 130
Kindi, al-, 207
King, John, 150
Kircher, Athanasius, 113
Kövecses, Zoltán, 99
Ladies Dictionarie, 153
Lake, Edward, 254
Lancelot de Carles, 251
Lasso, Orlando di, 253
legerdemain, 129
Leicester, Earl of (Robert Dudley), 251
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 105
Lloyd, Lodowick, 60
Lodge, Thomas, 60
Long, John H., 2–3
Lord Chamberlain’s Men, 59
Lorte, William, 27
magic, 3, 223, 304n143;
and alchemy, 136;
and astrology, 136;
Christian practice, close ties to, 130–31;
as defined, 128–30;
depiction of, in entertainment, 132;
diversity of, 130;
dramatic representations of, 135;
erotic desire, link to, 136;
and science, 4;
and skepticism, 129;
Marcus Aurelius, 11
Marenzio, Luca, 253
Marsh, Christopher, Music and Society in Early Modern England, 3
Mary I, 51–52
mathematics, 21, 92, 95–97, 100, 111, 128, 130–33, 147, 176;
and divinity, 127;
and occult, 127;
spiritually dangerous practices, as code for, 127
McAdams, Stephen, 162–63
McLeod, Ken, 144
melancholy, 167, 198, 211, 215, 227, 230, 238, 241, 251, 262–63;
grief, synonymous with, 250;
hermits, association with, 249;
and imagination, 249–50;
and madness, 249;
Melvill, James, 251
Mersenne, Marin, 126
metaphor, 2, 16, 21, 37, 67–69, 99–101, 106–7, 112–14, 119–20, 124, 126, 129, 133–34, 147, 177, 191, 193, 201, 203, 245;
and allegory, 105;
and metaphysics, 4;
Middleton, Thomas, The Witch, 304–5n153
Mildmay, Grace (Sharrington), 263
minstrels, 16–17
Morley, Thomas, 19, 22–23, 33, 94–96, 99, 132, 143, 178, 197, 212–14, 231, 253, 259–61, 263, 265–66;
music, 8, 29, 37–38, 108, 139, 192, 216;
abstraction and concretion, conceptual space between, 2;
and adhortation, 40;
affective powers of, 5;
and allegory, 105;
antiquity of, 158;
architecture, relationship between, 117;
argument about, 9–10;
arithmetic, debt to, 114–15;
art and science, 91–92;
audible harmony, 167;
audible music, as harmful, 57;
bodily and spiritual ways of knowing, 4;
Calvinism, effect on, 52;
carnality of, 57;
and chastity, 66;
Christian contemplation, 217;
in Christian worship, 4;
and chromaticism, 258–59;
church music, 55–57;
church music, objections to, 47–48;
and cogitation, 208;
cognitive-affective, 204–5;
cognitive-linguistic framework of, 169;
common stock of words, borrowing from, 54;
as conceptual tool, 101;
and consciousness, 5;
cosmic secrets, 157–58;
as dangerous, 70–71;
darker aspects of, 71;
deleterious effects of, 16–17;
and diatonicism, 258–59;
and discourse, 9;
double principle of, 234;
ecclesiastical use, 41;
and ecstasy, 81–82;
as embodied, 38;
embodied practice, 9;
and eternity, 167;
ethics, association with, 13;
experience of, 161–64;
fantasy, and imagination, conflation with, 208;
as gift of God, 44;
haunting quality of, 257;
in human ecology, 5;
human voice, 204;
humoral theory, 238;
and imagination, 208–11;
liberal arts tradition of, 12–13;
as liberal science, 92;
marriage, as metaphor for, 151–53;
medical manuals and moral philosophies, 14;
and medicine, 322n24;
and Mercury, 157;
and moderation, 60–61;
moralizing balladry, 63;
musical miracles, 43;
mystery of, 158–60;
and occult, 127;
in occult practices, 132;
performance practice, as problematic, 58;
personal and collective memory, 161;
pleasure of, 167;
positive effects of, 230;
praise-and-dispraise exercises, Christian aspect of, 47–48;
psychology of, 162–63;
psychophysical change, agent of, 161;
psychophysical health, maintaining of, 233;
rapturous potential of, 71–72;
rationality and intellectual self-discipline, 108–9;
reach and significance of, 15;
religious principles, expression of, 54;
religious ritual, 43;
as restorative, 157;
rhythm of oration, 61;
in sacred space, 50–51;
as sanguinary, 245;
as science, 2;
sectarian boundaries, crossing of, 54;
secular balladry, 57–58;
self-diagnosis and maintenance, 251;
self-integrity, endangering of, 73;
sight and sound, intersection between, 119–20;
social belonging, 162;
social space, creating of, 161;
speaking of vs. performing, 4;
and speculation, 94–97;
text, unity of, 188;
and theology, 149;
as therapeutic force, 221–22;
trance states, inducing of, 72;
universal order, as center of, 165;
various effects of, 231;
vocal ways of knowing, 19–20, 93–94. See also acoustics; composition; listening; musical instruments; singing; sound
musica humana, 192
musical instruments, 56, 61, 65, 91–92, 99, 101, 103, 127, 132, 142, 144, 146, 157, 173, 199, 202–4, 213, 232, 236–38, 251, 256;
geometrical principles, constructed on, 115;
and occult, 200;
as signifiers, 120–21. See also individual instruments
musical tourism, 4
mysticism, 97
Nabbes, Thomas, Microcosmus, 253
necromancy, 130
Netherlands, 250
North, Roger, 213
occult sciences, 147, 224, 253;
Christian practice, close ties to, 130–31;
and concealment, 127;
and mathematics, 127;
musical instruments, 200–203;
and revelation, 129;
and skepticism, 139;
Palfryeman, Thomas, 11
Parker, Matthew, 59
passion, 9, 35, 72, 78, 163, 173, 175, 179, 188, 191, 208–9, 211–12, 215, 218–20, 224–25, 227, 235–37, 239–42, 245–46, 249, 253, 255–56, 262, 264–65, 267. See also affect; affection; emotion
Pathway to Musicke, The, 36
Peacham, Henry, the Younger, 99–100, 115, 117, 122, 130, 193–94, 200–201, 232, 250, 255;
“Melancholia,” 248;
melancholy, dramatic personification of, 247;
Persia, 128–29
Petrarch, 180
Philo, 20
physics, 129
Plotinus, 113
Politeuphuia, 1
Praise of Musicke, The, 7, 9–11, 12–13, 15, 17, 24, 36, 41–42, 44, 47, 50–51, 53, 55–56, 58, 60, 72–74, 85, 108–9, 111–12, 151, 166, 177, 227–30, 240–41, 250–51, 255, 265;
musical miracles, 43
Prester John, 51
Proclus, 97
Prynne, William, 17
Ptolemy, 113
Purcell, Henry, 192
Purchase, Samuel, 94
Pythagoras, 90–91, 97, 109, 114, 117, 121–22, 131–32, 140, 165–66, 195, 199–200, 256;
auditory cognition, 111;
and proportionality, 138;
and zodiac, 141
Ramus, Petrus, 33
reading, 30;
contradictory authorities, navigating of, 27–28;
as creative process, 26;
importance of, 25;
selection of material, 28;
speech and writing, continuous with, 29
recorder, 146
Reisch, Gregor, 207;
religio, 4
Reynolds, Henry, Mythomystes, 112
rhetoric, 9–12, 15, 23, 28, 30, 33–34, 37–38, 57–58, 63, 65, 67, 70, 79, 81;
and logic, 35;
manuals of, 75;
Rollenhagen, Gabriel, 38
Romei, Annibale, 96–98
Rosseter, Philip, 253
Russell, Lucy (Harrington). See Bedford, Countess of (Lucy [Harrington] Russell)
Sandys, George, 199
Sanford, James, 13
Scholastics, 205
scientia, 4
Scotland, 122
secrets, 23, 95, 97, 99, 127, 130–31, 136, 138, 141, 147, 157–59, 195, 200. See also occult sciences
“Sermon of the Place and Time of Prayer,” 52–53
sermons, 35
sexuality, 65, 68;
ecstasy, concept of, 71–72;
as force, trope of, 71;
and music, 153;
rape metaphors, 71;
Shakespeare, William, 3, 49, 59, 67, 70, 105–7, 170, 191;
As You Like It, 263;
Cymbeline, 69–70;
Hamlet, 69;
Macbeth, 69;
Richard II, 1–2;
Tempest, 304–5n153;
Twelfth Night, 214–16
shalmes. See shawm
shawm, 230
Short, Peter, 1–2
Smith, Bruce, 3
solemn feasts, 50–51
songs, 31–32, 45, 47, 57, 59, 61, 76, 94–95, 135–36, 141, 172, 197, 199–200, 204, 212, 230–31, 241, 245, 251, 253, 256, 263–64;
as accessible, 244;
of erotic love, 243;
marriage songs, 69;
as utilitarian, 266
sound, 3, 12, 17–21, 23, 37–38, 52, 59, 61, 63–64, 74, 85, 101, 103, 107, 119–20, 124, 133, 147–48, 158, 160, 163, 175–76, 178, 188, 190–91, 193–94, 200–201, 211–12, 240;
and imagination, 210;
and memory, 210;
power of, 170;
processing of, 174;
psychological nature of, 164–66;
and vibration, 167
Spain, 50
Spencer, John, 198
spirits, 16, 32, 75, 160–61, 164, 188, 193–95, 198–204, 207, 209, 212, 214–15, 220, 222, 227–30, 235, 237, 254, 256, 265–66;
memory, link to, 210
spirituality, 192
Steinberg, Michael P., 257
Stoics, 196
Stuart, Elizabeth (princess), 209
superstition, 129
Surphlet, Richard, 167
Sylvester, Josuah, 239
Synopsis of Vocal Music (treatise), 204
tavern songs, 57–58
Temperley, Nicholas, 283n10
temporality, 129
theurgy, 130
Timmers, Renee, 257
Tomkins, Thomas, 72, 77–80, 82–85;
“Above the Stars my Saviour Dwells,” 73;
Songs of 3. 4. 5. and 6. Parts, 76
Tomlinson, Gary, 3
Topsell, Edward, 69–70
Trelcatius, Lucas, Common Places of Divinity, 75
Trethowan, W. H., 257
Turner, Robert, 130
van der Noot, Jan, 115
Vaughan, Thomas, 147
Virgil, 17–18
Wallis, John, 211–12
Watts, William, 70
Weelkes, Thomas, 188;
Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites for three voices, 212;
Balletts and Madrigals to Five Voyces, 16;
Wells, Robin Headlam, 144
White, Nicholas, 23
Whythorne, Thomas, 18–19, 94;
Songes, for five voyces, 14–15;
Songes, for three fower and five voyces, 56
Wilkins, John, 250
Wilkinson, Robert, 69–70
Willis, Jonathan, 49
Wilson, Thomas, 34
Wisdom, Gregory, 134
witch trials, 135
Wither, George, 38, 40, 56, 254;
A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, 38–39;
“Musica serva Dei,” 39
Wotton, Henry, 117