Speaking of sex: Metaphor and performance in the Italian madrigal

Journal of Musicology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-31

  Macy, Laura ^a  

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EID: 61449424432     PISSN: 02779269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/jm.1996.14.1.03a00010     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, Translated by George Bull, (New York, 1967), 44
2. Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex, shows that many fundamental Galenic principles about sex were held to be true into the nineteenth century
3. Galen: On the Usefulness of the parts of the body. Trans. Margaret Tallmadge May, 2 vols. (New York, 1968), II, 640-41
4. The ambivalence about heating a woman to a "male" temperature is easy to imagine. There is a great fear of this in the literature, and punishment was severe for women who achieved this temperature without the help of a man. See Greenblatt, "Fiction and Friction" and Judith Brown, Immodest Acts, The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, (New York, 1986)
5. See also James Haar, "Notes on the 'Dialogo della musica' of Antonfrancesco Doni" Music and Letters XLVII (1966), 198
6. The literature on form and function in jokes is extensive. The containment function of the punchline is widely accepted as an important feature of the joke, especially jokes with sexual innuendo. See for example Victor Raskin, Semantic Mechanisms of Humor, (Dordrecht, 1985)
7. and Frank J. MacHovec, Humor: Theory, History, Application, (Springfield, IL, 1988)
8. I borrow this idea from James Haar, Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, (Berkeley, 1986), 54-58
9. On Brancaccio see Newcomb, The Madrigal at Ferrara, 185-86