Music in the English Courtly Masque 1604-1640

ISBN-13: 9780198161417 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 400 str.

Peter Walls

Opis

Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the music. Yet our view of the masque has been dominated by the texts, and indeed, modern scholarship has tended to treat the masque first and foremost as a literary genre. This book is the first complete study of the multi-faceted view of its subject, piecing together a picture of what the music was actually like from musical scores, documentary evidence, and the dramatic texts.

Recenzje

I found myself persuaded that the book had given me a significantly clearer impression of what this odd entertainment must have been like than I had been able to glean before ... he has teased out a remarkable amount of detail.