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Journal Article
The Monstrous Musical Body: Mythology and Surgery in Late Medieval Music Theory
2013
Overview
This article analyzes three analogies based on monstrous anomaly described in late medieval music theory treatises. Jacques of Liège's 14th-century diatribe against the proponents of abnormal notational values such as larga (or duplex longa) invoked multicephalic or multi-limbed creatures, possibly recalling the Hydra of Lerna, Cerberus, or Medusa Gorgona. Fifteenth-century music theorist Ugolino of Orvieto's analysis of the eight ecclesiastical modes posited that the occurrence of structural anomalies within interval species engendered a monstrous, composite animal: Chimera. The third example, still from Ugolino, introduces a surgically \"manufactured,\" anthropomorphic monster. Its origin, traceable to actual 14th- and 15th-century surgical practice, suggests Ugolino's familiarity with contemporary surgical writings such as Guy de Chauliac's Chyrurgia magna. Furthermore, the monster also suggests Ugolino's actual connection with Michele Savonarola, physician to both Borso and Lionello d'Este at the court of Ferrara, and believed to have performed one of the two types of surgery present in Ugolino's analogy. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
