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GEORGE HERBERT AND EARLY MODERN MUSICAL CULTURE Describedbyonecontemporary asthe‘sweetsingeroftheTemple’, George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This is the first extended critical study to situate Herbert’s roles as priest, poet and musicianinthecontextofthemusico-poeticactivitiesofmembersof his extended family, from the song culture surrounding William Herbert and Mary Sidney to the philosophy of his eldest brother Edward Herbert of Cherbury. It examines the secular ‘visual music’ oftheStuartcourtmasqueaswellasthesacredsongsofthechurch. Arguing that Herbert’s reading of Augustine helped to shape his musical thought, it explores the tension between the abstract ideal of music and its practical performance to articulate the distinctive theological insights Herbert derived from the musical culture of histime. is Director of Music at Peterhouse and Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, and a former Leverhulme Early Career FellowattheUniversity ofWarwick.Hisworkfocusesprimarily on seventeenth-century musico-poetics, and has won the George Herbert Society Chauncey Wood Award () and an English Literary Renaissance Award(). Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press GEORGE HERBERT AND EARLY MODERN MUSICAL CULTURE SIMON JACKSON UniversityofCambridge Published online by Cambridge University Press ShaftesburyRoad,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#–/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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Published online by Cambridge University Press For Freja Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents List of Figures page ix List of Musical Examples x Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction MusicinTheTemple HerbertandEarlyModernMusicalCulture MusicandtheLyricMode Measuring Well: Ethics and Incarnational Music RetuningtheSky HerbertandAugustine’sDemusica RightMeasurement(I):MusicandNumber RightMeasurement(II):HealthandAffliction MusicandIncarnation:ImitationandParticipation Communities of Voices: Song Culture at Wilton House Pembroke’sPoems()andSongCultureatWilton HerbertandtheWiltonCoterie ‘ThePassionateShepherd’ ‘Whoshallsingbestthyname’:‘TheDedication’ ‘Placemeinthyconsort’ The Visual Music of the Masque DefiningRitualSpace:Entering‘TheChurch’ MusicandRitualTime ‘AkindeofharmonieinSight’:VisualProportion ProportioninPerspective TheVisualMusicoftheDance ParticipatingintheRevels:Leaving‘TheChurch’ vii Published online by Cambridge University Press viii Contents Concord and Consent: The Music of Lord Herbert of Cherbury Cherbury’sCosmopolitanMusic DeveritateandMusic MicrocosmandMacrocosm:Cherbury’sAstrologicalCompositions EchoesandResonances(I):EdwardandGeorgeHerbert EchoesandResonances(II):EchoSongs Double Motion: Attending to Church Music AttendingtoScripture AttendingtheOffices ‘Amodestdistinctsong’ HerbertandtheChurchMusicControversy ‘TheCall’andtheCommandmentAnthem VerseandDialogueAnthems DoubleMotion:Herbert’sPolyphony Singing the Psalms SingingthePsalmsinEarlyModernEngland TheVoiceof‘ThePsalme’ MeasuringTimein‘ThePsalme’ ThePsalmsofAscent MakingOnePlaceEverywhere ‘Altogetherwithonevoyce’ Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Published online by Cambridge University Press Figures . John Dowland, ‘Disdain me still’, from A Pilgrimes Solace (London, ) page . Longleat House, Whitelocke Papers, Parcell II, Item (), fol. v . Longleat House, Whitelocke Papers, Parcell II, Item (), fol. v . Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi historia ... tomus secundus de ... microcosmi (Oppenheim, ), p. . Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi historia ... tomus primus de macrocosmi (Oppenheim, ), p. . Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musick (London, ), p. . Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, ), frontispiece engraved by J. Cross ix Published online by Cambridge University Press
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