The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durkin, Rachael.

Series:

Routledge Music Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--17th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.

Civilization, Modern, in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature considers musico-literary production from the period 1500-1800, as well as its contemporary resonances, and seeks to unpick these often knotty intersections.

Contents:

Prologue : intermedial earliness

Part I, Music and early modern writings. Writing the music of the 'new world' : representing alterity in early modern French accounts of Tupinamba songs / Niall Oddy ; Translating echoes : British interpretations of Indian rāgamālā poetry and painting in the eighteenth century / Richard Williams ; The spring grass studio anthology of Qin music and musical writings (Chuncaotang qinpu) : a vignette of music, prose, and literati ideals in eighteenth-century Hangzhou, China / Joseph Lam ; Popularising the Morris dance in William Kemp's Nine daies wonder / Kathryn Roberts Parker ; Thwick-a-thwack : metallic music in early modern London / Emily Rowe ; Composer anecdotes and the musical press in the late 18th century / Sean Toland ; Pudica siren: multilingual poetic tributes to the Italian singer Leonora Baroni in seicento Rrome / Thomas Matthew Vozar

Part II, Political voices. Ballads, ayres, and collective memory in the performance of refrains in early modern England / Sarah Williams ; Moll Cutpurse, Mad Tom, and the politics of noise in early modern London / Joseph Nelson ; Unsung songs : sonic histories in 'Thomas of Woodstock' / Laura Jayne Wright ; Pastoral allegories in 16th-century madrigals : a symbolic framework for crisis and rebirth / Alessandra Ignesti ; The medium of life : learned wit in the catch and glee repertoire / Christopher Price ; Songs as pornography in eighteenth-century England / Alison DeSimone

Part III, Staging the early modern. Performing nothing : Shakespeare plays with music / Erin Minear ; Interweaving song : communial female singing and sewing on the early modern English stage / Jennifer Wood ; 'With tears I complain about thee' : literary traditions of lovesickness and lamenting on the Spanish musical stage / Maria Virginia Acuña ; Discovery and disguise : tracing the bellman's cry in early modern English drama / Elisabeth Lutteman ; 'Listen to the speech of a good orator' : rhetoric and recitative at the intersection of speech and song / Alan Maddox ; Image, text, and sound in Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte (1790) / Carl Niekerk ; Textual strategies in contemporary Shakespeare opera adaptations : the Tempest (Thomas Adès) and Hamlet (Brett Dean) / Michael Halliwell

Part IV, Early modern afterlives. 'I strive thy name to sing' : music, metaphor and meaning in 17th-century English devotional lyrics and their modern afterlives / Helen Wilcox ; Paracelsus, Fouqué, Hoffmann : elemental spirits and the 'quest for nature' in German romantic literature and opera / Benjamin Schluter ; Salon culture and the fluid boundaires of art in the early romantic : the intertwinement of music and poetry in Louise Reichardt's songs / Julia Schmidt-Pirro ; Tolkien, the Gawain-poet, and music / Maxwell Ramage ; 'Pop petrarchism' : the love songs by the Beatles as a Petrarchan songbook / Gabriel Laguna-Mariscal ; As others see us : Robert Burns and national identity in Scottish folk and popular music 1970s-1980s / Michael Redwood ; Back to Bach : music and universality in Richard Powers's The gold bug variations / Josh Torabi ; 'All sorts of flowers that grow up from the earth' : John Darnielle's uses of the past / Richard O'Brien

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-050162-1

1-003-42735-9

OCLC:

1592928541