Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9780521593632 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 332 str.

Diane Kelsey McColley

Opis

This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets of the seventeenth century, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes, and Tomkins. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with engagement in historical controversy about the significance of the arts, their relation to politics, and the reliability of language.

Recenzje

'With an impressive discography and bibliography, as well as a useful index, the book is of utmost interest to the musicologist and the specialist of poetry.' Cahiers Elisabéthains

Spis treści

List of musical examples; Acknowledgements; Editions and abbreviations; Note on musical editions; Note on orthography; Introduction; 1. Nature's voice: concent of words and music; 2. The concinnity of the arts and the church music controversy; 3. Tuning the instrument: Donne's temporal and extemporal song; 4. The choir in Herbert's temple; 5. 'Sole, or responsive': voices in Milton's choirs; 6. Empire of the ear: the praise of music; Appendix I. Music, poems and iconography for the liturgical year; Appendix II. Chronology; Appendix III. Glossary of musical and liturgical terms; Notes; Discography; Bibliography; Index.