Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521036291
ISBN-13
9780521036290
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 23rd, 2007
Print length
332 Pages
Weight
522 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.40 x 2.00 cms
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This study explores the relationship between the language of seventeenth-century British poets and the music of composers who were their contemporaries. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with an exploration of larger questions concerning the arts, politics, and language.
This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. The seventeenth century was the time in English literary history when music was most consciously linked to words, and when the mingling of Renaissance and 'new' philosophy opened new discovery routes for the interpretation of art. McColley offers close readings of poems and the musical settings of analogous texts, and discusses the philosophy, performance, and disputed political and ecclesiastical implications of polyphony. She also enters into the discourse about the nature of language, relating poets' use of language and composers' use of music to larger questions concerning the arts, politics and theology.
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