Music in English Renaissance drama / edited by John H. Long ; contributors, Nan Cooke Carpenter, Ernest Brennecke, Ian Spink, R. W. Ingram, MacDonald Emslie, Willa McClung Evans, Vincent Duckles.
| Author/creator |
Long, John H. (John Henderson), 1916-2008 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1968. |
| Description | xvi, 184 pages : facsimiles, music ; 27 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Music in the English mystery plays / Nan Cooke Carpenter -- The entertainment at Elvetham, 1591 / Ernest Brennecke -- Campion's entertainment at Brougham castle, 1617 / Ian Spink -- Patterns of music and action in Fletcherian drama / R. W. Ingram -- Milton on Lawes: The Trinity MS revisions / MacDonald Emslie -- Cartwright's debt to Lawes / Willa McClung Evans -- The music for the lyrics in early seventeenth-century English drama: a bibliography of the primary sources / Vincent Duckles. |
| Abstract | Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance. This collection of essays by a number of distinguished scholars offers a series of views of the music of this drama -- ranging from the mystery cycles still performed in the late sixteenth century to the cavalier drama of the early seventeenth. The essays included here are mainly concerned with the minor dramatic forms -- the mystery plays, the entertainments, the masques, and the works of such playwrights as Marston and Cartwright -- which reveal more extensively the blending of music and drama; and they illustrate a variety of approaches to the dramatic art. The collection demonstrates the need for an interdisciplinary consideration of this important area of study. Of especial value to musicologists is the bibliography of extant music used in dramatic works of the period. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-178) and index. |
| LCCN | 68012969 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML286.2.L65 M8 1968 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |