Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England

by Linda Phyllis Austern

Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022670159X
• ISBN13: 9780226701592
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"