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The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

By: Ross W. Duffin

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The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

By: Ross W. Duffin

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.

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Oxford University Press

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0190856610

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9780190856618

A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

Anthony Munday’s 1588 Miscellany with Tunes

By: Ross W. Duffin

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A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

Anthony Munday’s 1588 Miscellany with Tunes

By: Ross W. Duffin

In 1588 Anthony Munday published A Banquet of Daintie Conceits, containing twenty-two new moral poems in various verse forms. Ranked with the best comic playwrights of his day, including Shakespeare, he was also a travel-writer, religious spy, actor, translator, royal messenger, deviser of civic entertainments, and historian. Munday confessed that he was not knowledgeable in music, yet he named a tune for singing each poem. Intriguingly, unlike typical broadside ballad tunes, most of Munday’s tunes are dances, and of the twenty-two named, fourteen are known from solo instrumental arrangements. Despite that survival, despite the poet’s fame, and despite an 1812 edition of the poems from the unique extant copy, this is the first attempt to set Munday’s Banquet lyrics to their respective music. Poems with unidentified melodies are set to period tunes that fit their versifications, making all the lyrics singable for the first time in over 400 years.

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111

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A-R Editions, Inc.

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1987208501

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9781987208504

Shakespeare's Songbook

By: Ross W. Duffin

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Shakespeare's Songbook

By: Ross W. Duffin

Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.

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536

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393058891

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9780393058895

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse

By: Ross W. Duffin

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The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse

By: Ross W. Duffin

Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.

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257

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Routledge

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1351542141

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9781351542142

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

By: Ross W. Duffin

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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

By: Ross W. Duffin

A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical Music What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor 'black'" (Wall Street Journal).In this "comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods" (Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "a serious and well-argued case" (Goldberg Magazine) that "should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning" (Saturday Guardian). Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393075648

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9780393075649

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

By: Ross W. Duffin

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Some Other Note

The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

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The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

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0190856629

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Some Other Note

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A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

Shakespeare's Songbook

Shakespeare's Songbook

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

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Some Other Note

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