Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

List of Contributors

pp x-xiii

Editors’ Note

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-14

I - MYTH IN MEDIEVAL MUSIC THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

pp 15-16

1 - Music and the Myth of Apollo's Grove

pp 17-31

2 - The Consolation of Philosophy and the ‘Gentle’ Remedy of Music

pp 32-45

3 - And in England, There are Singers: Grafting Oneself into the Origins of Music

pp 46-60

II - ICONOLOGIES OF MUSIC AND MYTH

pp 61-62

4 - The Harmonious Blacksmith, Lady Music and Minerva: The Iconography of Secular Song in the Late Middle Ages

pp 63-86

5 - Foolish Midas: Representing Musical Judgement and Moral Judgement in Italy c.1520

pp 87-104

III - MYTHS IN RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHIES OF MUSIC

pp 105-106

6 - Marsilio Ficino and Girolamo Cardano under Orpheus's Spell

pp 107-123

7 - Origin Myths, Genealogies and Inventors: Defining the Nature of Music in Early Modern England

pp 124-138

IV - MYTH AND MUSICAL PRACTICE

pp 139-140

8 - How to Sing like Angels: Isaiah, Ignatius of Antioch and Protestant Worship in England

pp 141-155

9 - In Pursuit of Echo: Sound, Space and the History of the Self

pp 156-166

V - NARRATIVES OF PERFORMANCE

pp 167-168

10 - Ophelia's Mad Songs and Performing Story in Early Modern England

pp 169-186

11 - Dangerous Beauty: Stories of Singing Women in Early Modern Italy

pp 187-204

VI - MYTH AND MUSIC AS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE

pp 205-206

12 - ‘Fantastic Spirits’: Myth and Satire in the Ayres of Thomas Weelkes

pp 207-223

13 - Feeling Fallen: A Re-telling of the Biblical Myth of the Fall in a Musical Adaptation of Marvell's ‘A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda’

pp 224-238

VII - RE-IMAGINING MYTHS AND STORIES FOR THE STAGE

pp 239-240

14 - ‘Armida's Picture we from Tasso Drew’?: The Rinaldo and Armida Story in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Operatic Entertainments

pp 241-258

15 - Translating Myth Through Tunes: Ebenezer Forrest's Ballad Opera Adaptation of Louis Fuzelier's Momus Fabuliste (1719–29)

pp 259-276

Bibliography

pp 277-304

Index

pp 305-318