Poetry and Music in 17C England

McColley, Diane Kelsey

ISBN 10: 0521036291 ISBN 13: 9780521036290

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This study explores the relationship between the language of seventeenth-century British poets and the music of composers who were their contemporaries. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with an exploration of larger questions concerning the arts, politics, and language.

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'With an impressive discography and bibliography, as well as a useful index, the book is of utmost interest to the musicologist and the specialist of poetry.' Cahiers Elisabéthains

Reseña del editor:

This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. The seventeenth century was the time in English literary history when music was most consciously linked to words, and when the mingling of Renaissance and 'new' philosophy opened new discovery routes for the interpretation of art. McColley offers close readings of poems and the musical settings of analogous texts, and discusses the philosophy, performance, and disputed political and ecclesiastical implications of polyphony. She also enters into the discourse about the nature of language, relating poets' use of language and composers' use of music to larger questions concerning the arts, politics and theology.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521036291
• ISBN 13: 9780521036290
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332