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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Music in Britain, 1600-2000 ;
21. |
Temas: | |
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.