The Well enchanting skill : music, poetry, and drama in the culture of the Renaissance : essays in honour of F.W. Sternfeld
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The Well enchanting skill : music, poetry, and drama in the culture of the Renaissance : essays in honour of F.W. Sternfeld
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
Available at 16 libraries
Note
"A bibliography of the writings of Frederick Sternfeld": p. [259]-270
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These essays are published to mark the 75th birthday of F. W. Sternfeld. The essays are grouped under three main headings: "Music, Theatre, and Text in the Italian Renaissance", "Music and Theatre in 17th-Century England" and "English Music and English Poetry". The work is aimed at musicologists, and students of Renaissance poetry, music, and drama.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Sir Michael Tippett
- Preface
- Part I: Music, Theatre, and Text in the Italian Renaissance : Howard M. Brown: Music for Italian plays in the mid-sixteenth century
- Jane Glover: Reality and unreality in seventeenth-century Venetian opera
- Carolyn Gianturco: Text and music in the Italian seventeenth-century cantata
- Eleanor Selfridge-Field: Celestial image and musical affect
- Silke Leopold: Music and text in seventeenth-century Italy
- Part II: Music and the Theatre in Seventeenth-Century England : David Lindley: Shakespeare's provoking music
- Christopher Wilson: Music and poetry in Campion's Masques
- Peter Walls: "Let monarchs fight": The resotration residue of the Stuart Court masque
- Peter Holamn: Grabu's music for Valentinian
- Elizabeth Mackenzie: Milton's opera
- Part III: English Music and English Poetry : John Caldwell: "O death rock me asleep": A reconstruction
- John Stevens: Sir Philip Sidney and `Versified music'
- John Ward: "And who but Lady Greensleeves?"
- David Greer: "A farewell dear love": The history of an Elizabethan air
- Mary Chan: The repertoire of a seventeenth-century music meeting
- Katharine Duncan-Jones: Elizabethan funeral elegies
- John Carey: Milton's harmonious sisters.
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