Table Of ContentGEORGE HERBERT AND EARLY MODERN
MUSICAL CULTURE
Describedbyonecontemporary asthe‘sweetsingeroftheTemple’,
George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music.
Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century
musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This is the first
extended critical study to situate Herbert’s roles as priest, poet and
musicianinthecontextofthemusico-poeticactivitiesofmembersof
his extended family, from the song culture surrounding William
Herbert and Mary Sidney to the philosophy of his eldest brother
Edward Herbert of Cherbury. It examines the secular ‘visual music’
oftheStuartcourtmasqueaswellasthesacredsongsofthechurch.
Arguing that Herbert’s reading of Augustine helped to shape his
musical thought, it explores the tension between the abstract ideal
of music and its practical performance to articulate the distinctive
theological insights Herbert derived from the musical culture of
histime.
is Director of Music at Peterhouse and Little St
Mary’s Church, Cambridge, and a former Leverhulme Early Career
FellowattheUniversity ofWarwick.Hisworkfocusesprimarily on
seventeenth-century musico-poetics, and has won the George
Herbert Society Chauncey Wood Award () and an English
Literary Renaissance Award().
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GEORGE HERBERT AND
EARLY MODERN MUSICAL
CULTURE
SIMON JACKSON
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Contents
List of Figures page ix
List of Musical Examples x
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction
MusicinTheTemple
HerbertandEarlyModernMusicalCulture
MusicandtheLyricMode
Measuring Well: Ethics and Incarnational Music
RetuningtheSky
HerbertandAugustine’sDemusica
RightMeasurement(I):MusicandNumber
RightMeasurement(II):HealthandAffliction
MusicandIncarnation:ImitationandParticipation
Communities of Voices: Song Culture
at Wilton House
Pembroke’sPoems()andSongCultureatWilton
HerbertandtheWiltonCoterie
‘ThePassionateShepherd’
‘Whoshallsingbestthyname’:‘TheDedication’
‘Placemeinthyconsort’
The Visual Music of the Masque
DefiningRitualSpace:Entering‘TheChurch’
MusicandRitualTime
‘AkindeofharmonieinSight’:VisualProportion
ProportioninPerspective
TheVisualMusicoftheDance
ParticipatingintheRevels:Leaving‘TheChurch’
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Concord and Consent: The Music of Lord Herbert
of Cherbury
Cherbury’sCosmopolitanMusic
DeveritateandMusic
MicrocosmandMacrocosm:Cherbury’sAstrologicalCompositions
EchoesandResonances(I):EdwardandGeorgeHerbert
EchoesandResonances(II):EchoSongs
Double Motion: Attending to Church Music
AttendingtoScripture
AttendingtheOffices
‘Amodestdistinctsong’
HerbertandtheChurchMusicControversy
‘TheCall’andtheCommandmentAnthem
VerseandDialogueAnthems
DoubleMotion:Herbert’sPolyphony
Singing the Psalms
SingingthePsalmsinEarlyModernEngland
TheVoiceof‘ThePsalme’
MeasuringTimein‘ThePsalme’
ThePsalmsofAscent
MakingOnePlaceEverywhere
‘Altogetherwithonevoyce’
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Figures
. John Dowland, ‘Disdain me still’, from A Pilgrimes Solace
(London, ) page
. Longleat House, Whitelocke Papers, Parcell II,
Item (), fol. v
. Longleat House, Whitelocke Papers, Parcell II,
Item (), fol. v
. Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi historia ... tomus
secundus de ... microcosmi (Oppenheim, ), p.
. Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi historia ... tomus primus
de macrocosmi (Oppenheim, ), p.
. Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction
to Practicall Musick (London, ), p.
. Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, ),
frontispiece engraved by J. Cross
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