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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Grapes, K. Dawn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2018.
Collection:Music in Britain, 1600-2000 ; 21.
Sujets:
1500-1599
Funeral music > England > History > 16th century.
Elegiac poetry, English > History and criticism.
Musique funèbre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Poésie élégiaque anglaise > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Elegiac poetry, English
Funeral music
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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