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The matter of song in early modern England : texts in and of the air / Katherine R. Larson

Author
Larson, Katherine Rebecca
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Airy Forms -- 2.Breath of Sirens -- 3.Voicing Lyric -- 4.Household Songs -- 5.Sweet Echo.
Summary
Given the variety and richness of the 16th- and 17th-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.
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ISBN
9780191879487 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
This edition also issued in print: 2019.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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