Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music

277 Pages·2011·6.22 MB·English

by  Joseph M. Ortiz

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BROKEN HARMONY

BROKEN HARMONY
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SHAKESPEARE AND
THE POLITICS OF
MUSIC
Joseph M. Ortiz
CORNEll UNivERsitY PREss
Ithaca and London
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library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ortiz, Joseph M., 1972–
Broken harmony : shakespeare and the politics of music /
Joseph M. Ortiz.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBN 978-0-8014-4931-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Knowledge—
Music. 2. shakespeare, William, 1564–1616— Criticism
and interpretation. 3. Music in literature. i. title.
PR3034.O78 2011
822.3'3— dc22 2010035502
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For my parents,
George and Martha Ortiz

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has
tried to look upon the world. it has failed to under-
stand that the world is not for the beholding. it is for
hearing. it is not legible, but audible.
—Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music
“Do you agree?” asked Margaret. “Do you think
music is so different to pictures?”
“i—i should have thought so, kind of,” he said.
“so should i. Now, my sister declares they’re just
the same. We have great arguments over it. she says
i’m dense; i say she’s sloppy.” Getting under way, she
cried: “Now, doesn’t it seem absurd to you? What
is the good of the arts if they’re interchangeable?
What is the good of the ear if it tells you the same as
the eye?”
—E. M. Forster, Howards End

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Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
introduction: Disciplining Music 1
1. Titus Andronicus and the Production
of Musical Meaning 18
2. “Her speech is nothing”: Mad speech
and the Female Musician 45
3. teaching Music: the Rule of Allegory 77
4. impolitic Noise: Resisting Orpheus
from Julius Caesar to The Tempest 142
5. shakespeare’s idolatry: Psalms and
Hornpipes in The Winter’s Tale 180
6. the Reforming of Reformation:
Milton’s A Maske 213
Selected Bibliography 243
Index 257
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