Introduction: Disciplining Music 1. Titus Andronicus and the Production of Musical Meaning 2. "Her speech is nothing": Mad Speech and the Female Musician 3. Teaching Music: The Rule of Allegory 4. Impolitic Noise: Resisting Orpheus from Julius Caesar to The Tempest 5. Shakespeare's Idolatry: Psalms and Hornpipes in The Winter's Tale 6. The Reforming of Reformation: Milton's A Maske Selected Bibliography Index
Joseph M. Ortiz is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, The College at Brockport.
"Ortiz's goal is to reexamine all the concepts related to and about music in Renaissance England and specifically to argue that Shakespeare challenges many of the concepts that were carried over from medieval notions and viewpoints... It is a fascinating approach and historical perspective that has been lost on previous scholarship in this area... This is an important contribution to musicological, historical, and Shakespearean studies."-Bradford Lee Eden, Sixteenth Century Journal (Fall 2012) "The beautifully written Broken Harmony makes a splendid contribution to Shakespeare and Renaissance studies by examining not only Shakespeare's strategic deployment of music in a dozen or so plays but also the cultural politics that informed this choice. Joseph M. Ortiz's argument is wholly original and his approach securely interdisciplinary, and his conclusions apply to a broad range of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts."-William J. Kennedy, Cornell University "Drawing on an impressive range of primary source material and the close reading of centuries worth of criticism, Joseph M. Ortiz's book goes beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries to demonstrate the vast complexities of Shakespeare's use of music. He shows convincingly that Shakespeare and such contemporaries as Milton had a deep understanding of music as multifaceted art and as science, as embodied practice and as linguistically mediated metaphor, and carefully manipulated expectations of it against a background of conflicting claims about its nature by various factions who used it for their own political ends. In particular, Ortiz shows that the relationships among music, language, imagery, and the performing body in Shakespeare's era were anything but simple."-Linda Phyllis Austern, Northwestern University "In Broken Harmony, Joseph M. Ortiz takes on the important topic of music as a scripted event in Shakespeare's plays. To the philosophical and practical aspects of early modern music Ortiz adds a politics of music that gets right to the heart of religious controversy in the period between Catholic and Protestant, high church and low."-Bruce R. Smith, Dean's Professor of English, University of Southern California
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