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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments, rendering them performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. |
| Contents |
Part I. Background of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Mystery and morality ; Court interludes ; St. Paul's interludes ; Chapels Royal interludes ; University and Inns of Court interludes ; Continental influences -- Part II. London comedy to 1625. Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ; George Chapman (1559-1634) ; John Marston (1576-1634) ; Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) ; John Fletcher (1579-1625) ; Thomas Middelton (1580-1627) ; Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) ; Philip Massinger (1583-1640) ; Other playwrights ; Anonymous plays ca. 1600 ; Jigs -- Appendix : Lyly's added songs (1632) |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Humorous songs -- England -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
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Humorous songs. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Humorous songs -- England -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice. |
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MUSIC -- Lyrics. |
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English drama (Comedy) |
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Duffin, Ross W. Some other note 9780190856601 (DLC) 2017027134 (OCoLC)994220427 |
| ISBN |
9780190856618 (electronic book) |
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0190856610 (electronic book) |
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9780190856601 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0190856602 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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