Rebecca Cype
Biographic Data
| ID | 1072894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Cype |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Cype |
| SIGNATURE | CYPE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5683-7780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Eighteenth-Century Musical Salon Hostess as a Model for Academic Leaders
I entered academic administration while researching musical salons of the eighteenth century. Therefore, I came to see the salonnière and the academic administrator as analogous in some respects, despite their very different contexts. This article explores ways in which salon sociability and academic administration overlap, particularly as administrators strive to strike a balance between leadership and self-effacement that helps all members of t…
Introduction
An introduction to a special collection of essays exploring the salon and the senses in eighteenth-century France. Provides an overview of the critical historiography on the salon and the role of salon hostesses. Explores new approaches to salon within the context of the history of the senses, with attention to the role of art, music, and sociability in salon culture. Provides an overview of the essays in the collection
Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis
The theatrical genre known as the proverbe dramatique , which flourished as a pastime of French high society during the late eighteenth century, has often been understood through the written exemplars left by the author and artist Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle. Yet Carmontelle’s literary contributions to the genre have obscured the vast range of activities known as jouer des proverbes (playing proverbs)—activities associated especially wit…
Notation, Performance, and the Significance of Print in the Music of Ignatius Sancho ( c . 1729–1780) 1
The posthumously published correspondence of the Black British writer, butler, musician, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho ( c . 1729–1780) has received extensive critical attention in recent decades, especially because it contributed to opening a space for Black authorship in the Atlantic world. Absent from discussions of Sancho's negotiation of orality, writing, and print have been Sancho's books of musical compositions—the volumes published durin…
The Poetics of the Wise Fool in the Music and Letters of Ignatius Sancho
While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho has long been recognized as pioneering in its use of the sentimental literary style to articulate anti-racist and anti-slavery positions, his music has largely evaded serious interpretative consideration. This essay considers one way in which Sancho apparently used music to convey his moral messages. His song ‘Sweetest Bard’ and his instrumental…
Arrangement Practices in the Bach Tradition, Then and Now
Despite the increased use of period instruments in modern-day conservatories and concert life, many classical musicians continue to make their careers by playing early music on “modern” instruments. In such performances, aspects of the esthetic impulse of the music can always be conveyed. In adapting early music for modern instruments, it is helpful to think about the adaptation as an “arrangement,” and to seek out ways of capturing the esthetic …
Can Musical Machines Be Expressive? Views from the Enlightenment and Today
How can music produced by automated technologies be expressive? Transitive theories of expression dominated eighteenth-century ideas of automated music, and many contemporary designers of robotic instruments adhere to these ideas, increasing sonic nuance to make their instruments seem more like expressive human performers. A listenercentered understanding of expression—an "intransitive" perspective—allows us to see automatic instruments as capabl…
Biagio Marini
Biagio Marini is widely recognized as one of the most important composers of the early seventeenth century. Although his instrumental works, many of which boast a highly virtuosic and experimental approach, have received more attention from scholars and performers than his vocal works, he was a prolific composer in a wide range of genres, both vocal and instrumental. Marini’s surviving oeuvre includes, among instrumental works, polyphonic canzona…
It Would Be without Error
Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle's treatise La tonotechnie, ou l'art de noter les cylindres (1775) claimed that automated instruments driven by pinned cylinders would grant listeners direct access to music as the composer conceived it. Standard notation was insufficient, as it did not capture the music's mouvement - its temporal flexibility from moment to moment. Denis Diderot provided an aesthetic justification for automated instruments in term…
Singing Games in Early Modern Italy
Journal Article Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi . By Paul Schleuse Get access Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi . By Paul Schleuse . pp. 384 . Music and the Early Modern Imagination. ( Indiana University Press , Bloomington and Indianapolis , 2015 . £34. ISBN 978-0-253-01501-3 .) Rebecca Cypess Rebecca Cypess Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Giovanni Battista Della Porta’s Experiments with Musical Instruments
A section of Giovanni Battista Della Porta's Magia naturalis (1589) celebrates the powers of musical instruments. Most of these powers are rooted in neo-Platonist natural magic: Della Porta explains that the materials of instruments retain their original properties, shaping the body and soul of the listener through their mutual sympathy or antipathy. In a series of three demonstrations presented at the end of this section on music, however, Della…
Instrumental Music and 'Conversazione' in Early Seicento Venice
In entitling his debut publication of 1617 Affetti musicali, Biagio Marini became the first composer to use the suggestive term affetti in the title of a book consisting entirely of instrumental music. Marini indicated that the book grew out of live music-making among a progressive group of Venetian listeners. Consideration of these social musical events in the context of early modern theories of friendship and civility—especially those articulat…
It Would Be without Error
Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle's treatise La tonotechnie, ou l'art de noter les cylindres (1775) claimed that automated instruments driven by pinned cylinders would grant listeners direct access to music as the composer conceived it. Standard notation was insufficient, as it did not capture the music's mouvement - its temporal flexibility from moment to moment. Denis Diderot provided an aesthetic justification for automated instruments in term…
Instrumental Music and 'Conversazione' in Early Seicento Venice
In entitling his debut publication of 1617 Affetti musicali, Biagio Marini became the first composer to use the suggestive term affetti in the title of a book consisting entirely of instrumental music. Marini indicated that the book grew out of live music-making among a progressive group of Venetian listeners. Consideration of these social musical events in the context of early modern theories of friendship and civility—especially those articulat…
Singing Games in Early Modern Italy
Journal Article Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi . By Paul Schleuse Get access Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi . By Paul Schleuse . pp. 384 . Music and the Early Modern Imagination. ( Indiana University Press , Bloomington and Indianapolis , 2015 . £34. ISBN 978-0-253-01501-3 .) Rebecca Cypess Rebecca Cypess Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Giovanni Battista Della Porta’s Experiments with Musical Instruments
A section of Giovanni Battista Della Porta's Magia naturalis (1589) celebrates the powers of musical instruments. Most of these powers are rooted in neo-Platonist natural magic: Della Porta explains that the materials of instruments retain their original properties, shaping the body and soul of the listener through their mutual sympathy or antipathy. In a series of three demonstrations presented at the end of this section on music, however, Della…
Biagio Marini
Biagio Marini is widely recognized as one of the most important composers of the early seventeenth century. Although his instrumental works, many of which boast a highly virtuosic and experimental approach, have received more attention from scholars and performers than his vocal works, he was a prolific composer in a wide range of genres, both vocal and instrumental. Marini’s surviving oeuvre includes, among instrumental works, polyphonic canzona…
It Would Be without Error
Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle's treatise La tonotechnie, ou l'art de noter les cylindres (1775) claimed that automated instruments driven by pinned cylinders would grant listeners direct access to music as the composer conceived it. Standard notation was insufficient, as it did not capture the music's mouvement - its temporal flexibility from moment to moment. Denis Diderot provided an aesthetic justification for automated instruments in term…
Can Musical Machines Be Expressive? Views from the Enlightenment and Today
How can music produced by automated technologies be expressive? Transitive theories of expression dominated eighteenth-century ideas of automated music, and many contemporary designers of robotic instruments adhere to these ideas, increasing sonic nuance to make their instruments seem more like expressive human performers. A listenercentered understanding of expression—an "intransitive" perspective—allows us to see automatic instruments as capabl…
Arrangement Practices in the Bach Tradition, Then and Now
Despite the increased use of period instruments in modern-day conservatories and concert life, many classical musicians continue to make their careers by playing early music on “modern” instruments. In such performances, aspects of the esthetic impulse of the music can always be conveyed. In adapting early music for modern instruments, it is helpful to think about the adaptation as an “arrangement,” and to seek out ways of capturing the esthetic …
Notation, Performance, and the Significance of Print in the Music of Ignatius Sancho ( c . 1729–1780) 1
The posthumously published correspondence of the Black British writer, butler, musician, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho ( c . 1729–1780) has received extensive critical attention in recent decades, especially because it contributed to opening a space for Black authorship in the Atlantic world. Absent from discussions of Sancho's negotiation of orality, writing, and print have been Sancho's books of musical compositions—the volumes published durin…
The Poetics of the Wise Fool in the Music and Letters of Ignatius Sancho
While the correspondence of the Black British writer, musician, butler, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho has long been recognized as pioneering in its use of the sentimental literary style to articulate anti-racist and anti-slavery positions, his music has largely evaded serious interpretative consideration. This essay considers one way in which Sancho apparently used music to convey his moral messages. His song ‘Sweetest Bard’ and his instrumental…
Introduction
An introduction to a special collection of essays exploring the salon and the senses in eighteenth-century France. Provides an overview of the critical historiography on the salon and the role of salon hostesses. Explores new approaches to salon within the context of the history of the senses, with attention to the role of art, music, and sociability in salon culture. Provides an overview of the essays in the collection
Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis
The theatrical genre known as the proverbe dramatique , which flourished as a pastime of French high society during the late eighteenth century, has often been understood through the written exemplars left by the author and artist Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle. Yet Carmontelle’s literary contributions to the genre have obscured the vast range of activities known as jouer des proverbes (playing proverbs)—activities associated especially wit…
The Eighteenth-Century Musical Salon Hostess as a Model for Academic Leaders
I entered academic administration while researching musical salons of the eighteenth century. Therefore, I came to see the salonnière and the academic administrator as analogous in some respects, despite their very different contexts. This article explores ways in which salon sociability and academic administration overlap, particularly as administrators strive to strike a balance between leadership and self-effacement that helps all members of t…
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