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.
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"McColley's genuine love of the music and texts she examines is a persistent undercurrent in this book, and her willingness to submit her ideas to the scrutiny of a variety of specialists--even when, as in the opening chapter, her conclusions might seem a bit unoriginal, and her insights mostly on a local level--is laudable. Herein, I would submit lies the greatest value of this work for musicologists, and ultimately it is this quality that determines the success of McColley's endeavor. Reading the final pages, with their apostrophe to organs and parish choirs, one becomes aware tht McColley's book is, in a way, her own "song": an intensely personal statement from a respected scholar, and a compelling demonstration of the extent to which an ear for music and an ear for poetry can be mutually enriching." Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
"...this book unquestionably enables us to "listen" to the seventeenth-century poets with greatly increased appreciation." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"...this book unquestionably enables us to "listen" to the seventeenth-century poets with greatly increased appreciation." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
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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.
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Brady's words sum up a musical conception of the cosmos, and Purcell's music offers auricular proof: jarring chords by tremulous strings on "jarring Seeds" beg for resolution, voices agree homo-phonically on "agree" and scatter in separate lines on "scatter'd," various voice parts sing "various Parts," modulation displays harmonic proportions on "true proportion," and a lingering cadence on "one Perfect Harmony" ends with one perfect tonic chord. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
church music controversy, true hymne, saviour dwells, pure concent, transisset sabbatum, copious matter, est pan, solemn musick, verse anthem, tibi trinitas, natural tuning, pure intonation, sacrum convivium, organ book, beloved spake, expressive treatment, modal music, musical proportions, corner sing, full choir, practical music, metrical psalms, hath breath, psalm settings, choral voices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord God, Paradise Lost, Book of Common Prayer, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Eton Choirbook, Chapel Royal, George Herbert, Henry Lawes, King's College Chapel, Trinity College, Song of Solomon, Great Service, Thomas Tallis, Christ Church, Middle Ages, Nativity Ode, Song of Songs, Thomas Weelkes, Westminster Abbey, Arthur Lake, God the Father, Musick's Empire, New Testament New!
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Brady's words sum up a musical conception of the cosmos, and Purcell's music offers auricular proof: jarring chords by tremulous strings on "jarring Seeds" beg for resolution, voices agree homo-phonically on "agree" and scatter in separate lines on "scatter'd," various voice parts sing "various Parts," modulation displays harmonic proportions on "true proportion," and a lingering cadence on "one Perfect Harmony" ends with one perfect tonic chord. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
church music controversy, true hymne, saviour dwells, pure concent, transisset sabbatum, copious matter, est pan, solemn musick, verse anthem, tibi trinitas, natural tuning, pure intonation, sacrum convivium, organ book, beloved spake, expressive treatment, modal music, musical proportions, corner sing, full choir, practical music, metrical psalms, hath breath, psalm settings, choral voices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord God, Paradise Lost, Book of Common Prayer, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Eton Choirbook, Chapel Royal, George Herbert, Henry Lawes, King's College Chapel, Trinity College, Song of Solomon, Great Service, Thomas Tallis, Christ Church, Middle Ages, Nativity Ode, Song of Songs, Thomas Weelkes, Westminster Abbey, Arthur Lake, God the Father, Musick's Empire, New Testament New!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 24 pages
- Book of Common Prayer (1979, Personal Size Economy, Black) by The Episcopal Church on 13 pages
- Cantiones Sacrae: v. 8 (Musical Sources) by Thomas Tallis on 6 pages
- The Masses and Motets of William Byrd (The Music of William Byrd) by Joseph Kerman on 4 pages
- Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Mythology and Renaissance Poetics by S. K. Heninger on 4 pages
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- A Concise Companion to Milton (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by Angelica Duran on page 56
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