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020 $a9780198843788$qhardback
035 $a(OCoLC)1088526634
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050 4 $aPR507$b.L37 2019
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100 1 $aLarson, Katherine Rebecca,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe matter of song in early modern England :$btexts in and of the air /$cKatherine R. Larson.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2019.
300 $axiv, 245 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aGiven the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, the tendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. 0Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more0closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life.
650 0 $aBallads, English$zGreat Britain$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aEngland$xSongs and music$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y16th century.
651 0 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
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650 7 $aSongs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01126120
651 7 $aEngland.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01219920
648 7 $a1500-1699$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
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