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Music in English Renaissance drama / edited by John H. Long

Author
Long, John H. (John Henderson), 1916-2008
Published
Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, [1968]
Copyright Date
©1968
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) : facsimiles, music
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Contents
Introduction -- Music in the English mystery plays / Nan Cooke Carpenter -- The entertainment at Elvetham / Ernest Brennecke -- Campion's entertainment at Brougham castle, 1617 / Ian Spink -- Patterns of music and action in Fletcherian drama / R. W. Ingram -- Milton on Lawes : The Trinity MS revisions / MacDonald Emslie -- Cartwright's debt to Lawes / Willa McClung Evans -- The music for the lyrics in early seventeenth-century English drama : a bibliography of the primary sources / Vincent Duckles.
Summary
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance. This collection of essays by a number of distinguished scholars offers a series of views of the music of this drama -- ranging from the mystery cycles still performed in the late sixteenth century to the cavalier drama of the early seventeenth. The essays included here are mainly concerned with the minor dramatic forms -- the mystery plays, the entertainments, the masques, and the works of such playwrights as Marston and Cartwright -- which reveal more extensively the blending of music and drama; and they illustrate a variety of approaches to the dramatic art. The collection demonstrates the need for an interdisciplinary consideration of this important area of study. Of especial value to musicologists is the bibliography of extant music used in dramatic works of the period.
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ISBN
9780813163611 (electronic bk.)
0813163617 (electronic bk.)
0813153352
9780813153353
Bibliography Note
Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references (pages [161]-178), and index.
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