Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

English | July 20, 2023 | ISBN: 0226826880 | True EPUB | 360 pages | 4 MB
Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects—composers, performers, listeners—in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is described as moving, ravishing, painful, dangerous, curative, and miraculous while affecting “the circulation of the humors, the purification of the blood, the dilation of the vessels and pores.”