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Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, Published 1958. Wraps, 38 pp.; 22 cm; illustrated with twenty black-and-white facsimile plates.
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In Very Good condition. Cream illustrated paper covers (with a decorative vignette of crossed lute and viol within a leafy frame) show mild toning and shelf wear with a hint of soiling. Binding tight, staple bound. Interior pages clean and unmarked.A booklet in the Folger Shakespeare Library's series of "Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization," intended to introduce non-specialist readers to the music of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Dorothy E. Mason's essay surveys the relationship between musical life and the wider intellectual currents of the age, treating Anglican church music (Tye, Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd), the madrigal school (Morley, Wilbye, Weelkes), the lute ayre (Dowland, Campion), domestic music-making on virginals, viols, and broken consorts, and the role of music in the theater. The essay is followed by a Suggested Reading list and twenty facsimile plates reproducing original title pages, song settings, manuscript commonplace books, instruments, and contemporary depictions of musical life from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources.Contents (plates): "Musique"; Service from Mornyng and Euenyng Prayer; The 81st psalm; Title-page of Morley's A Plaine and Easie Introduction; Song by John Wilbye; Air from Dowland's First Booke of Songes; Lute and viol; Dancing in early Venice; Musical instruments of Elizabeth's age; Virginals and viol; Song for voices; Manuscript commonplace book; Song from Morley's First Book of Ayres; Song from Shakespeare's Tempest; Song from The Tempest; Manuscript commonplace book; Jig from Playford's Dancing-Master; Two pages from Campion's The Description of a Maske; Madrigal by John Wilbye.