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Research paper thumbnail of The Poetics of the Wise Fool in the Music and Letters of Ignatius Sancho

Music & Letters, Mar 15, 2023

ABSTRACT While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper I... more ABSTRACT While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho has long been recognized as pioneering in its use of the sentimental literary style to articulate anti-racist and anti-slavery positions, his music has largely evaded serious interpretative consideration. This essay considers one way in which Sancho apparently used music to convey his moral messages. His song ‘Sweetest Bard’ and his instrumental dance piece ‘Mungo’s Delight’ suggest that he adopted and reappropriated the persona of the ‘wise fool’, a figure well known to eighteenth-century readers from characters such as Shakespeare’s Falstaff, Sterne’s Yorick, and Cervantes’s Sancho Panza. Understanding these two pieces of music through the lens of the wise fool helps to elucidate Sancho’s use of music as a means of calling attention to the prejudices of white British society.

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 5. Instruments of Timekeeping

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Arrangement Practices in the Bach Tradition, Then and Now: Historical Precedent for Modern Practice

Routledge eBooks, Jul 11, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Instrumental music in early Seventeenth-Century Italy: Instruments as vehicles of discovery

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 4. “Curiose e moderne inventioni”

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Italy

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 3, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Music and Musical Instruments as Sites of Knowledge in the Early Modern Era

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 1. The Paradox of Instrumentality

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara. By Laurie Stras

Music & Letters, Aug 1, 2019

The musical ladies of Alfonso II d'Este's illustrious concerto delle donne have long held a place... more The musical ladies of Alfonso II d'Este's illustrious concerto delle donne have long held a place of fascination in Western music history discourses. Lesser known, however, are the musical activities of Ferrara's sixteenth-century women religious, including their interactions with the city's secular court. While the musicological awareness of early modern convents is certainly increasing-thanks initially to foundational works by Craig Monson and Robert Kendrick, followed shortly by Colleen Reardon and more recently Janet Page-the majority of studies have focused on women religious from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth century in Bologna, Milan, Siena, and Vienna, leaving the musical women of Ferrara more or less untouched since Anthony Newcomb's The Madrigal at Ferrara, 1579-1597. 1 Adding to this growing body of research and expanding upon Newcomb's work is Laurie Stras's much-anticipated monograph, in which the musical practices of Ferrara's early modern convents are brought into dialogue with those of the secular noblewomen of the Este court. Stras organizes her text chronologically in nine chapters that follow the lives of the Este noblewomen and their dealings with the city's convents. Aft er a brief introduction to Ercole I's and Eleonora d'Este's fi ft eenth-century cultivation of Ferrara's monastic spaces, Stras continues with Lucrezia Borgia (wife of Alfonso I d'Este) in the early sixteenth century through to the dissolution of the concerto delle donne and the devolution of Ferrara at the end of the 1590s. Throughout the narrative, Stras skillfully marries the sacred and profane while providing a musical backdrop to the complex political and social lives of the Este noblewomen who moved fl uidly between Ferrara's secular and sacred spaces. The fi rst chapter provides a general overview of convent life in early modern

Research paper thumbnail of Biagio Marini: Madrigali et Symfonie. By Aurelio Bianco and Sara Dieci

Music & Letters, Aug 1, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 3. Portraiture in Motion

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 2. Instruments of the Affetti

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 6. The stile moderno and the Art of History

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Instrumental Performance and Artisanship in the Age of Basso continuo

Research paper thumbnail of Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

Research paper thumbnail of Notation, Performance, and the Significance of Print in the Music of Ignatius Sancho ( c . 1729–1780) 1

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite … libro primo (1615-1616) as a pedagogical text : artisanship, imagination, and the process of learning

Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite … libro primo (1615-1616) as a pedagogical text : artisanship, imagination, and the process of learning, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Evidence about the "Lira da Braccio" from Two Seventeenth-Century Violin Sources

Research paper thumbnail of Music Historicism

Research paper thumbnail of Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy, Mar 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Poetics of the Wise Fool in the Music and Letters of Ignatius Sancho

Music & Letters, Mar 15, 2023

ABSTRACT While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper I... more ABSTRACT While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho has long been recognized as pioneering in its use of the sentimental literary style to articulate anti-racist and anti-slavery positions, his music has largely evaded serious interpretative consideration. This essay considers one way in which Sancho apparently used music to convey his moral messages. His song ‘Sweetest Bard’ and his instrumental dance piece ‘Mungo’s Delight’ suggest that he adopted and reappropriated the persona of the ‘wise fool’, a figure well known to eighteenth-century readers from characters such as Shakespeare’s Falstaff, Sterne’s Yorick, and Cervantes’s Sancho Panza. Understanding these two pieces of music through the lens of the wise fool helps to elucidate Sancho’s use of music as a means of calling attention to the prejudices of white British society.

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 5. Instruments of Timekeeping

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Arrangement Practices in the Bach Tradition, Then and Now: Historical Precedent for Modern Practice

Routledge eBooks, Jul 11, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Instrumental music in early Seventeenth-Century Italy: Instruments as vehicles of discovery

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 4. “Curiose e moderne inventioni”

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Italy

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jan 3, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Music and Musical Instruments as Sites of Knowledge in the Early Modern Era

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 1. The Paradox of Instrumentality

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara. By Laurie Stras

Music & Letters, Aug 1, 2019

The musical ladies of Alfonso II d'Este's illustrious concerto delle donne have long held a place... more The musical ladies of Alfonso II d'Este's illustrious concerto delle donne have long held a place of fascination in Western music history discourses. Lesser known, however, are the musical activities of Ferrara's sixteenth-century women religious, including their interactions with the city's secular court. While the musicological awareness of early modern convents is certainly increasing-thanks initially to foundational works by Craig Monson and Robert Kendrick, followed shortly by Colleen Reardon and more recently Janet Page-the majority of studies have focused on women religious from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth century in Bologna, Milan, Siena, and Vienna, leaving the musical women of Ferrara more or less untouched since Anthony Newcomb's The Madrigal at Ferrara, 1579-1597. 1 Adding to this growing body of research and expanding upon Newcomb's work is Laurie Stras's much-anticipated monograph, in which the musical practices of Ferrara's early modern convents are brought into dialogue with those of the secular noblewomen of the Este court. Stras organizes her text chronologically in nine chapters that follow the lives of the Este noblewomen and their dealings with the city's convents. Aft er a brief introduction to Ercole I's and Eleonora d'Este's fi ft eenth-century cultivation of Ferrara's monastic spaces, Stras continues with Lucrezia Borgia (wife of Alfonso I d'Este) in the early sixteenth century through to the dissolution of the concerto delle donne and the devolution of Ferrara at the end of the 1590s. Throughout the narrative, Stras skillfully marries the sacred and profane while providing a musical backdrop to the complex political and social lives of the Este noblewomen who moved fl uidly between Ferrara's secular and sacred spaces. The fi rst chapter provides a general overview of convent life in early modern

Research paper thumbnail of Biagio Marini: Madrigali et Symfonie. By Aurelio Bianco and Sara Dieci

Music & Letters, Aug 1, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 3. Portraiture in Motion

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 2. Instruments of the Affetti

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 6. The stile moderno and the Art of History

University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Instrumental Performance and Artisanship in the Age of Basso continuo

Research paper thumbnail of Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment

Research paper thumbnail of Notation, Performance, and the Significance of Print in the Music of Ignatius Sancho ( c . 1729–1780) 1

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite … libro primo (1615-1616) as a pedagogical text : artisanship, imagination, and the process of learning

Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite … libro primo (1615-1616) as a pedagogical text : artisanship, imagination, and the process of learning, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Evidence about the "Lira da Braccio" from Two Seventeenth-Century Violin Sources

Research paper thumbnail of Music Historicism

Research paper thumbnail of Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy, Mar 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Paul Schleuse, Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Susan McClary, ed., Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression (U of Toronto Press, 2013). In H-France Reviews, vol. 15 (2015).

H-France Reviews, 2015

The seventeenth century has long been recognized as a liminal moment in European cultural history... more The seventeenth century has long been recognized as a liminal moment in European cultural history. It was an age of invention, of discovery, of artistic and scientific innovation. Leading writers of the period-Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and many others-developed systems to organize and evaluate knowledge of history and natural philosophy. Thinkers and practitioners working in music and visual art, in poetry and theater, in political and social sciences, grappled with these new realities and challenges. Paradoxically, perhaps, recognition of the limitations of human knowledge was central to the work of these revolutionary thinkers, many of whom expressed doubts about their capacity to perceive and understand the world. [1]

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Carmel Quartet + Shuli Waterman, Ben-Haim, chamber music for strings.

Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Aurelio Bianco, Vie et oeuvre de Carlo Farina (Early Music, 2011)

Early Music, 2011

Nach englischer und frantzösischer Art': Vie et oeuvre de Carlo Farina (avec l'édition des cinq r... more Nach englischer und frantzösischer Art': Vie et oeuvre de Carlo Farina (avec l'édition des cinq recueils de Dresde) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), €60

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Raymond Erikson, The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach

Early Music America, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Kathleen Berg, "The Swiss Orpheus"

Early Music America, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Giulia Nuti, The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo (Ashgate, 2007)

Early Music America, 2008

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