O let us howle some heavy note : music for witches, the melancholic, and the mad on the seventeenth-century English stage

O let us howle some heavy note : music for witches, the melancholic, and the mad on the seventeenth-century English stage / Amanda Eubanks Winkler.

Author/creator	Eubanks Winkler, Amanda
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Description	x, 232 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Dido and Aeneas. Dramatic music--England --17th century --History and criticism. Operas--England --Characters. Characters and characteristics in opera. Theater--England --History --17th century.

Contents	Music and the macrocosm: disorder and history -- "Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more" -- "Remember me, but ah, forget my fate" -- "O let us howle some heavy note" -- Disorder in the eighteenth century.
Abstract	This book focuses on the various ways that theatrical music represented disorderly subjects--those who presented either a direct of metaphorical threat to the health of the English kingdom in seventeenth-century England. Using theater music to examine narratives of social history, she demonstrates how music reinscribed and often resisted conservative, political, religious, gender, and social ideologies.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
LCCN	2006008072
ISBN	0253348056 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780253348050

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Music	Music Stacks	ML1731.2 .W56 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold