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Sidney and Music
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Abstract
This essay reviews a set of interlocking subjects concerning Philip Sidney and music. First, it assesses the practical question of what direct musical experience Sidney had, either as participant, auditor, or student. Sidney’s life records, practical and theoretical musical compendiums, and courtly conduct books all inform this section. Next, it examines Sidney’s musical milieu, including major theoretical and practical musical developments in secular and sacred music, in order to address how Sidney understood the relationship of poetry to music and how he may have differentiated between consort music, polyvocal song, and solo music. Macrocosmic theory of speculative music, poetic metrical experimentations, and debates about the centrality of text or music all appear in this section. Finally, it provides an overview of music in Sidney’s major works, including Certain Sonnets, Astrophil and Stella, and the Arcadia. It concludes with an assessment of the musicality of Sidney’s poetry, broadly conceived.
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Abstract
This essay reviews a set of interlocking subjects concerning Philip Sidney and music.
First, it assesses the practical question of what direct musical experience Sidney had, either as participant, auditor, or student.
Sidney’s life records, practical and theoretical musical compendiums, and courtly conduct books all inform this section.
Next, it examines Sidney’s musical milieu, including major theoretical and practical musical developments in secular and sacred music, in order to address how Sidney understood the relationship of poetry to music and how he may have differentiated between consort music, polyvocal song, and solo music.
Macrocosmic theory of speculative music, poetic metrical experimentations, and debates about the centrality of text or music all appear in this section.
Finally, it provides an overview of music in Sidney’s major works, including Certain Sonnets, Astrophil and Stella, and the Arcadia.
It concludes with an assessment of the musicality of Sidney’s poetry, broadly conceived.
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