Syrene Soundes

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Syrene Soundes is written by Eleanor Chan and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197748171 (ISBN 10) and 9780197748176 (ISBN 13).

The visual, material, and literary cultures of the English Renaissance are littered with objects that depict, utilise, or respond to the metaphor of musical harmony--yet harmony in this period relied on a certain amount of carefully mannered dissonance. Using visual and literary sources alongside musical works, author Eleanor Chan explores the rise of the false relation, a variety of dissonance that, despite being officially frowned upon by contemporary theoretical treatises, became characteristic of English vocal music between ca. 1550 and 1630.