Resumen de Response: Reasons to Be Cheerful
A response to Michael Ann Holly's paper “The Melancholic Art,” which is published in this issue. Two recent concerts of work by Heinrich Biber and Romanus Weichlein help to qualify Holly's comments on melancholy's role in the history of art. Melancholy is not an obvious feature of one's encounter with music of the past. To the extent that “melancholic knowledge” espouses the ideological loss of “aura,” it does so by restricting historiography to the metonymic, leaving room for neither metaphor nor synecdoche.
