| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Airy forms -- Breath of sirens -- Voicing lyric -- Household songs -- Sweet echo |
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Audio files contents. "My father faine would have mee take a man that hath a beard" (Robert Jones) -- Psalm 51 (Anon.) -- Psalm 130 (Anon.) -- "Bright Aurelia" (Charles Coleman) -- "Go thy way" (Anon.) -- "If ever hapless woman had a cause" (John Bartlet) -- "Mrs M.E. her Funerall teares for the death of her husband" (John Danyel) -- "Come, my Lucatia" (Henry Lawes) -- "In vaine, faire Cloris" (Mary Dering) -- "Oh mee the time is come to part" (Anon.) -- "Love growne proud" (John Wilson) -- "Was I to blame" (Alfonso Ferrabosco) -- "Sweet Echo" (Henry Lawes) -- "Resound my voice" (John Attey) |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Audio files available within the resource and on companion website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 8, 2020) |
| Subject |
Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Ballads, English
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Intellectual life
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Songs
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
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England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
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| Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192581945 |
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9780192581945 |
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9780191879487 |
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0191879487 |
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9780192581938 |
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0192581937 |
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