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SUMMARY:The Sound of Beauty - Dr Elizabeth Eva Leach\, University of Oxfor
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Biography\n\nElizabeth Eva Leach is University Lecturer in Mus
 ic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. She is
  the author of _Sung Birds: Music\, Nature_\, _and_ _Poetry in the Later M
 iddle Ages_ (Cornell\, 2007)\, and has broad interests in song\, music\, m
 usic theory\, and literature. Her monograph entitled _Guillaume de Machaut
 : Secretary\, Poet\, Musician_ will be published by Cornell University Pre
 ss in 2011.\n\nAbstract \n\nA strong strand in narratives of sonic beauty 
 in Western music history warns of the power of beautiful sound—frequentl
 y figured as female singing—to overcome reason\, to enchant\, to beguile
 . Such singing can lead its listeners astray\, ultimately even to their de
 aths. A complementary set of stories\, however\, relies on the idea that t
 he beauty of sound was guaranteed by its reflection of the harmonic ratios
  of the universe. The sound of beauty thus represented something uniquely 
 rational and divine. \n	“The Sound of Beauty” explores both negative a
 nd positive understandings of the beauty of sound from antiquity to the pr
 esent. What emerges is a history of varied human judgments of music\, argu
 ments over the ethics of music’s power\, and disagreements over music’
 s proper place in defining individual humanity.\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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