Artikel
The Siren, the Muse, and the God of Love : music and gender in seventeenth-century English emblem books
Verfasst von:
Austern, Linda Phyllis
in:
The journal of musicological research
New York:
1999
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95 - 138 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Austern, Linda Phyllis |
| In: | The journal of musicological research |
| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| the emblem book, a collection of cryptic visual images accompanied by a motto and poetic epigram in Latin or the vernacular, was one of the most popular forms of early modern literature. It called upon the interplay between sensationa and intellect, particularly auditory and visual pathways to understanding. the genre reached its apotheosis during the seventeeth century. Although these important compendia of culturally significant images have tended to remain outside the domain of musicology, they include numerous images of music which provide vital clues about its place in late Reanaissance and early Baroque culture. One of the most striking and neglected features of seventeenth-century English emblem books ist the consistent, didactic gendering of music, in which that which empowers, revitalizes, or inspires to noble action is most often depicted as asculine; and that which seduces, corrupts, or entertains sense before intellect is most frequently presented in feminine form. This essay demnonstrates how thes images and their accompanying poems serve to illustrate and sometimes undermine early modern English constructions of gender and attitudes toward women in a changing world. It also aopens the possibility for further investigation aof the vital link between music and emblematics in an era that emphasized the representational qualities of the auditory and visual art | |
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