Introduction: Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture Between Sensibility and Abstraction

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture Between Sensibility and Abstraction 1
4. Disharmonic Spheres: Metapoetic Noise in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls 11
5. In Search of the Word: Speech-like Chants and Confessional Identity in Counter-Reformation Mission to England 39
6. Patrizi’s and Mersenne’s Critiques of Ficino’s Interpretation of the Harmony of the Spheres 59
7. Divine Harmony, Demonic Afflictions, and Bodily Humours: Two Tales of Musical Healing in Early Modern England 81
8. The Powers and Effects of Music: English Theories from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment 101
9. »Cecilia’s Name does all our Numbers grace«: Musico-poetics in Joseph Addison’s St Cecilia’s Day Odes 125
10. Index of Names 155