Some other note : the lost songs of English Renaissance comedy

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, rendering them performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years.

Record details

ISBN: 0190856602
ISBN: 9780190856601
ISBN: 0190856610
ISBN: 9780190856618
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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)
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.