| Description |
218 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 205-212. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
[1.] Three modes of lyric among the Elizabethans -- Song and three modes of lyric -- Sidney, Watson, and Shakespeare -- Contrafactum, quantity, and song rhythms in Hume, Dowland, and Campion -- [2.] Herbert's "divine and moral songs" -- Herbert's song-mode prosody and lute songs -- Herbert's speech mode and declamatory song -- [3.] Herrick's songs and the character of Hesperides -- Song mode in Crashaw -- [5.] Milton, G.B. Doni, and Italian dramatic song -- Doni, musical-dramatic monody, and "Lycidas" -- Monodies and choral odes of Samson Agonistes -- Italian song and the inset lyrics of Paradise lost -- [6.] Cowley and restoration song -- Davideis and The mistresse in relation to music -- Cowley's mature odes and the settings of Blow and Purcell -- [7.] Interacting stylistic changes in lyric and song setting through the century. |
| Subject |
Songs, English -- England -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
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Songs, English. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Songs, English -- England -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Music and literature -- History -- 16th century.
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Music and literature. |
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History. |
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Music and literature -- History -- 17th century.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Schleiner, Louise. Living lyre in English verse. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1984 (OCoLC)557647865 |
| ISBN |
0826204414 |
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9780826204417 |
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