Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century EnglandThis 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 current 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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concent of words and music | 11 |
The concinnity of the arts and the church music | 53 |
Donnes temporal | 94 |
The choir in Herberts temple | 134 |
voices in Miltons choirs | 175 |
the praise of music | 218 |
Music poems and iconography for | 238 |
Chronology | 244 |
Notes | 256 |
Discography | 275 |
Bibliography | 281 |
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