The living lyre in English verse : from Elizabeth through the Restoration / Louise Schleiner.

Author/creator Schleiner, Louise
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press, 1984.
Description218 pages : music ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Three modes of lyric among the Elizabethans -- Song and three modes of lyric -- Sidney, Watson, and Shakespeare -- Contrafactum, quantity, and song rhythms in Hume, Dowland, and Campion -- Herbert's "divine and moral songs" -- Herbert's song-mode prosody and lute songs -- Herbert's speech mode and declamatory song -- Herrick's songs and the character of Hesperides -- Song mode in Crashaw -- Milton, G.B. Doni, and Italian dramatic song -- Doni, musical-dramatic monody, and "Lycidas" -- The monodies and choral odes of Samson Agonistes -- Italian song and the inset lyrics of Paradise lost -- Cowley and restoration song -- The Davideis and The mistresse in relation to music -- Cowley's mature odes and the settings of Blow and Purcell -- Interacting stylistic changes in lyric and song setting through the century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 205-212) and index.
LCCN 84002206
ISBN0826204414
ISBN9780826204417

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