Hazrat, F. (2020) Shakespeare's musical reformation: Sounds of silence? Early Modern Literary Studies, 21 (2). ISSN 1201-2459
Abstract
This article examines William Shakespeare's plays for their relationship to Reformation music. It sketches the status and practice of sacred music before and after the Reformation, drawing out two main aspects of the new religion's sonic changes, contrafactum composition, and congregational song, and exploring how Shakespeare registers and manages these in his oeuvre. Throughout, attention is paid to the lived experience of the Reformation in terms of sound based on a varied methodology including musicology, performance studies, and cognitive science. This article offers ways of turning the silent past into momentary sound, and in so doing imitates Shakespeare's own practices of sonic recuperation and aural innovation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) |
Keywords: | Shakespeare; music; Reformation; community; puritanism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2020 16:11 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2021 12:12 |
Published Version: | https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/eml... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sheffield Hallam University |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156320 |