William Lawes (1602-1645): Essays on His Life, Times and Work

ISBN-13: 9781138370227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 386 str.

Andrew Ashbee

Opis

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350^th anniversary of his death.

Spis treści

Part 1. The Environment. 1. William Lawes and the ‘Lutes, Viols and Voices’. Andrew Ashbee. 2. William Lawes’s Music for Plays. Julia K. Wood. 3. ‘That Sacred Oratory’: Religion and the Chapel Royal during the Personal Rule of Charles I. Anthony Milton. 4. The True Christmas: Carols at the Court of Charles I. David Pinto. 5. Images of Virtue and War: Music in Civil War Oxford. Jonathan P. Wainwright. 6. Paper in English Music Manuscripts: 1620-1645. Robert Thompson. 7. Wednesday, 24 September, 1645 – The Death of William Lawes during the Battle of Rowton Heath at the Siege of Chester. Layton Ring. 8. ‘Choice Psalmes’: A Brother’s Memorial. Andrew Robinson. Part 2. The Music. 9. Formality and Rhetoric in English Fantasia-Suites. Christopher D.S. Field. 10. New Lamps for Old: The Versions of the Royall Consort. David Pinto. 11. The Aire in William Lawes’s Five- and Six-Part Consort Sets for Viols and Organ: A Comparison and Analysis. Mark Davenport. 12. Lawes’s Division Viol. Pedigree of an Instrument. Annette Otterstedt. 13. William Lawes’s Lyra Viol Music: Some Observations. Frank Traficante.

O autorze

Andrew Ashbee