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On Method and Evidence On Method and Evidence
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Chaste Maid Setting—Character Education in Three Verses Chaste Maid Setting—Character Education in Three Verses
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Dissemblers Setting—Integrity Preserved in One Verse Dissemblers Setting—Integrity Preserved in One Verse
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Songbook Settings—Gender Debate in Two Verses Songbook Settings—Gender Debate in Two Verses
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On the Music—You Feel a Feeling On the Music—You Feel a Feeling
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On Performance—You Feel a Thought On Performance—You Feel a Thought
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5 Passionate Tunes For Amorous Poems: Middleton's Way With Music
Get accessRaphael Seligmann is an independent scholar in Richmond, Virginia. He holds degrees from Cornell University (BA), The Johns Hopkins University (MA), and Brandeis University (Ph.D), where Gary Taylor was his dissertation adviser. He has lectured and published on music in early seventeenth-century drama and has tested his theories of that music's expressiveness in collaboration with musicians who specialize in historically informed performance. He performs on baroque violin and viola with several ensembles. He is also the owner of a business consultancy, a board member of several civic and cultural organizations, and a mentor to at-risk schoolchildren.
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Published:21 November 2012
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Abstract
This article focuses on Middleton's way with music. Middleton treats music consistently as a ‘thing indifferent’ – good or bad depending on use. This moral agnosticism allows him to concentrate on music's practical value in building (and sometimes disrupting) communities. In Middleton's plays, song performances and comments about music expose complex relationships between characters without pretending to disclose eternal truths. Thus, a singing academy can serve as a front for a brothel in one play, while in another, a prostitute can sing a lute song to show sincere repentance. Music making in Middleton brings people together for business, fighting, love, or sex because it is something that people do and enjoy, and consider important.
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