Eleanor Chan

Gebundenes Buch

Syrene Soundes

False Relations in the English Renaissance

Beschreibung

The visual, material, and literary cultures of the English Renaissance are littered with objects that depict, utilise, or respond to the metaphor of musical harmony--yet harmony in this period relied on a certain amount of carefully mannered dissonance. Using visual and literary sources alongside musical works, author Eleanor Chan explores the rise of the false relation, a variety of dissonance that, despite being officially frowned upon by contemporary theoretical treatises, became characteristic of English vocal music between ca. 1550 and 1630.

Autor

Eleanor Chan is a historian of graphic notation with a particular interest in early modern European processes of abstract visualisation of technical or complex information into notational, graphic, and diagrammatic forms. She is the author of Mathematics & the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance. She received her PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780197748176
• ISBN-10: 0197748171
• Artikelnr.: 71809207