Sor Juana/Música

How the Décima Musa Composed, Practiced, and Imagined Music

Pamela H. Long (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

143 Seiten

2009 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0269-1 (ISBN)

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In her lost treatise on music which she titled El caracol, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz addressed the image of the spiral as a metaphor for musical harmony, an image which she distilled in one of her romances. Singing in the choir of the Templo de San Jerónimo, Sor Juana and the other nuns of her convent were raising the tone of their musica humana to be in accord with the music of the heavenly choirs, which the nuns were imitating in their singing. Octavio Paz theorizes a «triple interés» in music in Sor Juana’s works: «práctico, teórico, filósofico». Numerous poems allude to the theoretical and philosophical problems of music, resulting in many levels of metaphor and metonym concerning music, especially in the loas and villancicos. Not only does Sor Juana’s work address the metaphysical aspects of music, the musica speculative so popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it broaches important questions on the practical applications of new theories of musical harmony: the musica practica. A talented poet, playwright, scientist, and mathematician, Sor Juana also explored musical instruments and theory. Sor Juana/Música investigates the musical aspects of Sor Juana’s literary achievements, exploring the dense metaphorical interplay of musical and literary images, and places her works within the musicological ambience of her time. With its interdisciplinary approach, Sor Juana/Música contributes not only to the understanding of Sor Juana’s literary works, but also to the degree that literature underpins the other arts as it illuminates the musicological times in which she lived.

The Author: Pamela H. Long received her B.A. in speech communication and her M.A. in Hispanic studies from Auburn University in Alabama and her doctorate in Spanish from Tulane University in Louisiana. She is Associate Professor of International Studies at Auburn University and also the Hispanic minister at her church.

Reihe/Serie	Iberica ; 39
Reihe/Serie	Ibérica ; 39
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): A. Robert Lauer
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
ISBN-10	1-4331-0269-2 / 1433102692
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-0269-1 / 9781433102691
Zustand	Neuware