8/19/2019 Abstract Unmusical Man

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The Ape Clothed in Gold. Theunmusical man and his ʽbroken

music’

In this paper I want to look at the early modern fgure o ‘unmusical man’and at instances o ‘broken inner music’ as a way o addressing both thefgurative usage o music as an encompassing metaphor o harmony and

proportion and the account o its real eects in a person’s moral and intellectuallie in several types o te!t" writings ‘in praise o music’ #The Praise of Musicke"

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some o 7hakespeare’s plays #mainly The Tempest  appro!. $'$68$$( ichard IIappro!. $%/%( The Merchant of !enice" $%/'8$%/&- and 4eacham’s tratise on

gentlemanly education #The Compleat Gentleman" $'99-. 7ince the uncultivatednature o ‘the man that hath no music in himsel’ #7hakespeare : %.$.&9- is

not only a matter o uncouth manners or lack o proper skills more philosophical;uestions related to moral decorum the cultivation o one’s being and the proper

balance between assler $//%- alongside writings that comment on the

#right- use o music in altering one’s inner tuning" Thomas ?right The Passionsof the Minde in Generall" $'63( @escartes’s Musicae Compendium" $'%2 and

the Passions of the Soul" $'3/( 1urton’s Anatom# of Melanchol# " $'9$( 5obertAludd’s De musica mundana" $'$& and $trius%ue Cosmi &" $'$08$'93.