Music as the Measure of the Soul: Musical Instruments as Materiality in the English Renaissance Court and Noble Culture

Y拟议的项目旨在对文艺复兴文化中个人音乐表演的性质有一个新的理解。我试图探索，作为自我塑造和展示的乐器，如何为个人音乐成就中嵌入的美德主张提供永久的可见性。我打算把重点放在英国文艺复兴法庭上，以寻找我对更广泛的欧洲现象的证据，因为英格兰是这些文艺复兴理想的热情后来者，也因为有令人信服的证据(如幸存的文书和所有权证据)来发展这些论点。我试图确定高地位的乐器和其他音乐的物质体现是如何作为装饰艺术来制作的，以回应嵌入音乐表演中的人文美德的隐喻。至关重要的是，这项拟议的研究旨在探索支撑这些主张的文艺复兴时期的基本哲学。在乐器领域，这是一个很少被探索的领域，“器乐学”主要观察乐器的制作技术。

y proposed project seeks to develop a new understanding of the nature of personal musical performance within Renaissance culture. I seek to explore how musical instruments, made as for self-fashioning and for display, provided permanent visibility to claims of virtue embedded in personal musical accomplishment. I intend to focus on the English Renaissance court for my evidence of a broader European phenomenon because England serves as an enthusiastic latecomer to these Renaissance ideals, and because there is a compelling body of evidence (such as surviving instruments and evidence of ownership) upon which to develop these arguments. I seek to establish how high-status musical instruments, and other material embodiments of music, were made as decorative art in order to respond to the metaphors of humanist virtue embedded in the performing of music. Crucially, this proposed research is intended to explore underlying Renaissance philosophies that underpin these claims. This is a little explored area in the field of musical instruments where 'organology' has chiefly observed the technology of their making.