Some other note : the lost songs of English Renaissance comedy / Ross W. Duffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffin, Ross W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humorous songs--England--16th cenutury--History and criticism.

Humorous songs.

Humorous songs--England--17th cenutury--History and criticism.

English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

English drama (Comedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (761 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries [Publisher description]

Contents:

Part I. Background of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Mystery and morality ; Court interludes ; St. Paul's interludes ; Chapels Royal interludes ; University and Inns of Court interludes ; Continental influences

Part II. London comedy to 1625. Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ; George Chapman (1559-1634) ; John Marston (1576-1634) ; Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) ; John Fletcher (1579-1625) ; Thomas Middelton (1580-1627) ; Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) ; Philip Massinger (1583-1640) ; Other playwrights ; Anonymous plays ca. 1600 ; Jigs

Appendix : Lyly's added songs (1632)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-085662-9

0-19-085661-0