Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England

by Diane Kelsey McColley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521593638
• ISBN13: 9780521593632
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"