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With mornefull musique : funeral elegies in early modern England /

"This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England. In particular, it examines musical funeral elegies and the people related to commemorative tribute - the departed, the composer, potential patrons, and friends and family of the deceased - to determine the place these mus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grapes, K. Dawn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2018.
Colección:Music in Britain, 1600-2000 ; 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "With mornefull Musique" : the English musical funeral elegy
  • "The floure of England" : the earliest musical elegies for Sir Philip Sidney
  • "Of griefe and honour still" : Elizabethan courtiers
  • "Say death hath lost" : knights of the realm
  • "Weepe forth your teares" : laments for a lost king
  • "A flower of beutye" : the feminine legacy of queens and matriarchs
  • "For death of her" : the unusual case of Mary Gascoigne
  • "And music dies ..." : musicians and their stories
  • Epilogue.