Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622
Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622

Author: Edward Doughtie

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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"Elizabethan airs were finely textured, charming, witty --even lusty-- reflections of contemporary life. All of the collections that appeared between 1596 and 1622 except those attributed to Thomas Campion are reproduced in this delightful book. Mr. Doughtie's arrangement is chronological, and he gives close attention to the bibliographical peculiarities of the original books. The lyrics appear with only minor changes, and a sample of the original tablature notation is included. Mr. Doughtie sets forth the available evidence concerning the date and authorship of each poem, recording variants from as many contemporary printed and manuscript versions as are available. He includes as well extensive incidental information-- foreign models, explanations of difficult words and allusions, original spellings-- which makes this volume useful as well as fascinating. Edward Doughtie is Associate Professor of English as Rice University

The Matter of Song in Early Modern England
The Matter of Song in Early Modern England

Author: Katherine Rebecca Larson

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 019884378X

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This volume treats early modern song as a musical and embodied practice and considers the implications of reading song not just as lyric text, but as a musical phenomenon that is the product of the singing body. It draws on a variety of genres, from theatre to psalm translations, sonnets and lyrics, and household drama to courtly masques.

The Matter of Song in Early Modern England
The Matter of Song in Early Modern England

Author: Katherine R. Larson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0192581937

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Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.

British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue
British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue

Author: Martin Wiggins

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0199265739

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Volume 4 covers the years 1598-1602 during which dramatic satire emerged, as well as the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.

A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits
A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published:

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1987208501

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In 1588 Anthony Munday published A Banquet of Daintie Conceits, containing twenty-two new moral poems in various verse forms. Ranked with the best comic playwrights of his day, including Shakespeare, he was also a travel-writer, religious spy, actor, translator, royal messenger, deviser of civic entertainments, and historian. Munday confessed that he was not knowledgeable in music, yet he named a tune for singing each poem. Intriguingly, unlike typical broadside ballad tunes, most of Munday’s tunes are dances, and of the twenty-two named, fourteen are known from solo instrumental arrangements. Despite that survival, despite the poet’s fame, and despite an 1812 edition of the poems from the unique extant copy, this is the first attempt to set Munday’s Banquet lyrics to their respective music. Poems with unidentified melodies are set to period tunes that fit their versifications, making all the lyrics singable for the first time in over 400 years.

Reader's Guide to Music
Reader's Guide to Music

Author: Murray Steib

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 1135942625

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The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Eros and Music in Early Modern Culture and Literature
Eros and Music in Early Modern Culture and Literature

Author: Claire Bardelmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0429018290

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What is the relationship between Eros and music? How does the intersection of love and music contribute to define the perimeter of Early Modern love? The Early Moderns hold parallel discourses on the metaphysical doctrines of love and music as theories of harmony. Statements of love as music, of music as love, and of both as harmonic ideals, are found across a wide range of cultural contexts, highlighting the understanding of love as a cultural construct. The book assesses the complexity of cultural discourses on this linkage of Eros and music. The ambivalence of music as an erotic agent is enacted in the controversy over dancing and reflected in the ubiquitous symbolism of music instruments. Likewise, the trivialization of musical imagery in madrigal lyrics and love poetry highlights a sense of degradation and places the love-music relationship at the meeting point of two epistemes. The book also shows the symbolic deployment of the intertwined ideas of love and music in the English epyllion, and offers close readings of Shakespeare’s poems The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. The book is the first to propose an overview of the theoretical, cultural and poetical intersections of Eros and music in Early Modern England. It discusses the connections in a richly interdisciplinary manner, drawing on a wealth of primary material which includes rhetoric, natural philosophy, educational literature, medicine, music theory and musical performance, dance books, performance politics, Protestant pamphlets and sermons, and emblem books.