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The Well-Tun'd Word: Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651

The Well-Tun'd Word: Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651

Jorgens, Elise Bickford

Paperback

Series: Minnesota Archive Editions

Music Instruction: GeneralGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0816657998
ISBN13: 9780816657995
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pr
Published: Jan 25 1982
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The Well-Tun'd Word was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The years 1957-1651 marked a period of high achievement in the history of song. In The Well-Tun'd Word Elise Bickford Jorgens studies changing musical conventions of English song in relation to new patterns in poetic taste from the late Elizabethan era through the Jacobean and Caroline years, basing her work on the premise that any musical setting of a poem is an interpretation of the poem itself. Thus by 1625, she contends, solo song in England had undergone a pronounced change in musical style, from the lute song of earlier decades to the monophonic continuo song. The appearance of John Donne and especially Ben Johnson and the Cavalier poets marked the demise of the Elizabethan lyrical mode that had inspired composers like John Downland, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, and Robert Jones.

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