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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Katherine R. Larson

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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Katherine R. Larson

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Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung. When a reader encounters a song in a sonnet sequence, a romance, and even a masque or a play, however, thetendency is to engage with it as poem rather than as musical performance. Opening up the notion of song from a performance-based perspective, The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musicalpractice. Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and itsairy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- andseventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodologyand central case studies to life. | The Matter of Song in Early Modern England by Katherine R. Larson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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