Some other note : the lost songs of English Renaissance comedy
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Some other note : the lost songs of English Renaissance comedy
Oxford University Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 685-689) and index
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Description
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. Thanks to Duffin's incredible
breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.
Table of Contents
Glossary
Foreword, by Tiffany Stern
Prologue - Editorial Note
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Background of the 15th and 16th Centuries
1. Mystery/Morality Plays
2. Court Enterludes
3. St Paul's Enterludes
4. Chapels Royal Enterludes
5. University and Inns of Court Enterludes
6. Continental Influences
Part 2. London Comedy to 1625
7. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
8. George Chapman (1559-1634)
9. John Marston (1576-1634)
10. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
11. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
12. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
13. Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
14. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
15. Other Playwrights
16. Anonymous Plays ca.1600
17. Jigs
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