Well-Tun’d Word : Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651.
Title:
Well-Tun’d Word : Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651.
Author:
Jorgens, Elise Bickford.
ISBN:
9780816663217
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Poetry and Music -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Music for Meter and Rhythm -- Chapter 2: Music for Lines and Stanzas -- Part II: English Songs and Their Poetry -- Prologue -- Chapter 3: Measured Music -- Chapter 4: Dance Songs and Tuneful Airs -- Chapter 5: English Monody -- Chapter 6: Pathetic Airs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The years 1957-1651 marked a period of high achievement in the history of song. In The Well-Tun'd Word Elise Bickford Jorgens studies changing musical conventions of English song in relation to new patterns in poetic taste from the late Elizabethan era th.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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