George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-09806-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This is the first extended critical study to situate Herbert's roles as priest, poet and musician in the context of the musico-poetic activities of members of his extended family, from the song culture surrounding William Herbert and Mary Sidney to the philosophy of his eldest brother Edward Herbert of Cherbury. It examines the secular visual music of the Stuart court masque as well as the sacred songs of the church. Arguing that Herbert's reading of Augustine helped to shape his musical thought, it explores the tension between the abstract ideal of music and its practical performance to articulate the distinctive theological insights Herbert derived from the musical culture of his time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Measuring Well: Ethics and Incarnational Music; 2. Communities of voices: Song culture at Wilton House; 3. The visual music of the masque; 4. Concord and consent: The music of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; 5. Double motion: Attending to church music; 6. Singing the Psalms.

Über Autor(innen)

Jackson, Simon
Simon Jackson is Director of Music at Peterhouse and Little St Mary's Church, Cambridge, and a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. His work focuses primarily on seventeenth-century musico-poetics, and has won the George Herbert Society Chauncey Wood Award (2013) and an English Literary Renaissance Award (2015).