Urbino maiolica dish showing Cephalus and
Procris, 1537, Francesco Xanto Avelli (c.
Calderon's rendering of the tale of Cephalus and
Procris, a mythological story not directly related to music (such as that of Orpheus), seems to have in mind the connections between words and music on a deeper level, beyond those inherent to the operatic genre.
(14) Bowen sailed almost immediately via Pontianak, with the sloops HMS
Procris and Barracouta, and gunboats, plus 100 British soldiers.
They include Bellerophon, who accidentally killed his brother; Cephalus, who accidentally killed his wife
Procris; Leucippus, who accidentally killed his father; and Poemander, who accidentally killed his son.
His analysis of Cephalus and
Procris is methodologically impeccable.
They note that this was a tragedie, the first by a French woman "in the hundred years since Jacquet de la Guerre's Cephale et
Procris and Louise-Genevieve Gillot de Sainctonge's Circe (both in 1694)" (102).
Among his competition: Abraham Janssens (as shown in the Museum's new acquisition, "Cephalus Grieving over the Dying
Procris"), and Jacob Jordaens (represented at the Museum by the paintings of "Boaz" and "Ruth and Naomi"), who was a one-time assistant of Rubens.
Our debt to the Basel Museum would have been greater if it had sent us his Pyramus and Thisbe or Cephalus and
Procris rather than yet another dismal scene of decapitation.
One hundred years elapsed between the first operatic trag[acute{e}]dies by women (the 1694 performances of Jacquet de la Guerre's C[acute{e}]phale et
Procris and Louise-Genevi[acute{e}]ve Gillot de Sainctonge's Circ[acute{e}]) and Constance Pipelet's Sapho.
portrait of the proud
Procris, her husband Cephalus in "secret