Music in Renaissance Magic
Subtitle: Toward a Historiography of Others
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780226807928
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Magic & alchemy; Music; Witchcraft; History; Music/Songbooks; History: World; Europe; General; Music / General; Historiography; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: The affinities and intersections of music and magic linger in our culture, to be reproduced, synoptically, in the definitions of abridged dictionaries: magic, the art of manipulating natural or supernatural forces to produce desired results; music, the art of manipulating sounds to achieve desired expressive effects.