Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England [Paperback]

An exploration of the relationship between poetry and music in the seventeenth century.This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets of the seventeenth century, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes, and Tomkins. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with engagement in historical controversy about the significance of the arts, their relation to politics, and the reliability of language.This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets of the seventeenth century, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes, and Tomkins. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with engagement in historical controversy about the significance of the arts, their relation to politics, and the reliability of language.This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets of the seventeenth century, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes, and Tomkins. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with engagement in historical controversy about the significance of the arts, their relation to politics, and the reliability of language.List of musical examples; Acknowledgements; Editions and abbreviations; Note on musical editions; Note on orthography; Introduction; 1. Nature's voice: concent of words and music; 2. The concinnity of the arts and the church music controversy; 3. Tuning the instrument: Donne's temporal and extemporal song; 4. The choir in Herbert's temple; 5. 'Sole, or responsive': voices in Milton's choirs; 6. Empire of the ear: the praise of music; Appendix I. Music, poems and iconography for the liturgical year; Appendix II. Chronollã#