Music in Elizabethan Court Politics

by Katherine Butler

Book Overview

Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.

Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the state. But what roles did music play in Elizabethan court politics? How did a musical image assist the Queen in projecting her royal authority? What influence did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783274034
• ISBN13: 9781783274031
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"