Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

by Bettina Varwig

A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.

Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects--composers, performers, listeners--in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is described as moving, ravishing, painful, dangerous, curative, and miraculous while affecting "the circulation of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226826880
• ISBN13: 9780226826882
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"