Matter of Song in Early Modern England - Texts in and of the Air

List of contents

• Prologue


• 1: Airy Forms


• 2: Breath of Sirens


• 3: Voicing Lyric


• 4: Household Songs


• 5: Sweet Echo


• Epilogue


• Works Cited

About the author

Katherine R. Larson is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Early Modern Women in Conversation (Palgrave, 2011) and co-editor of Gender and Song in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014), and Re-Reading Mary Wroth (Palgrave, 2015). A former Rhodes Scholar and the winner of the 2008 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature, Dr Larson is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Summary

This volume treats early modern song as a musical and embodied practice and considers the implications of reading song not just as lyric text, but as a musical phenomenon that is the product of the singing body. It draws on a variety of genres, from theatre to psalm translations, sonnets and lyrics, and household drama to courtly masques.

Additional text

being both a trained soprano and a literary scholar means Larson has learned to read and interpret early modern music not only as a singer expressing herself in the semi-improvisatory context of performance, but also as an academic trained to be analytical about both music and lyrics on the printed page. This combination of skills and experience has encouraged her to develop a scholarly style that acknowledges 'the matter of song' as an evanescent yet powerfully affective force that can nevertheless be subject to interpretative analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine R Larson, Katherine R. Larson, Katherine R. (Associate Professor of Engli Larson, Katherine R. (Associate Professor of English Larson, Larson Katherine R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198843788
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884378-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; England, English, MUSIC / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, Literary studies: general, Theory of music & musicology, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Theory of music and musicology, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600