"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires': Music in Early Modern England presented at The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from June 2 through September 9, 2006"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219).
Contents
Introduction : soundscapes of early modern England / Jessie Ann Owens -- "What means this noise?" / Bruce R. Smith -- Ballads in Shakespeare's world / Ross W. Duffin -- John Playford and the English musical market / Stacey Houck -- Music and the cult of Elizabeth : the politics of panegyric and sound / Jeremy Smith -- Reading between the lines : Catholic and Protestant polemic in Elizabethan and Jacobean sacred music / Craig Monson -- "If any of you be mery let hym synge psalmes" : the culture of psalms in church and home / Nicholas Temperley -- Catalogue -- Notes to the catalogue.