Sing Againe Syren
The Female Musician and Sexual Enchantment in Elizabethan Life and Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10415908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Phyllis Austern (0000-0001-8038-4005, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 420-448 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2862078 |
| OpenAlex | W2312628820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
To Elizabethan observers in many disciplines, feminine beauty and music offered parallel benefits and dangers that influenced prescriptions for the actual musical behavior of contemporary Englishwomen and also the development of stock literary situations in which female musicians either caused spiritual fulfillment or physical destruction. Conflicting ideologies, based on the most respected ancient authorities and contemporary observers, attributed similarly opposite aspects to women and music, which had both come to be regarded as earthly embodiments of the divine and the damning by the final part of the sixteenth century. Women, who possessed the natures of both Mary and Eve, were regarded as agents alternately of salvation and destruction even as music was perceived as an inspiration to both heavenly rapture and carnal lust
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Human sexuality · Ideology · Literature · Lust · Musical · Political science · Politics · Sexual desire · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Sustainable Development and Policies · Theater, Performance, and Music History
The siren, the muse, and the god of love
The Little Pipe Sings Sweetly while the Fowler Deceives the Bird
Se vedesti qui dentro
The Gaze of the Listener
By Instruments her Powers Appeare”
That suck’d the honey of his music vows’
Unlyric
Tough Babies or Anger in the Superior Position
Art to Enchant’
Portraits of a Lady
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2024 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |