Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance

by Linda Phyllis Austern

Overview

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study to examine the Elizabethan and Jacobean children's drama, not only from a musicological perspective, but also drawing on the histories of literature, culture, and the theater.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032831787
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2024
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda Phyllis Austern is Professor in Musicology at Northwestern University, USA. She is a specialist in Western European, and especially English, music of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. Her expertise includes the intersections between music and the visual arts, gender and sexuality, natural philosophy, and the Shakespearean theater.

Table of Contents

The Children's Drama Companies
The Performances and Their Theaters
The Plays and Playwrights
Practical Music and the Dramatic Text
Preliminary, Inter-Act, and Finale Music
Music for Ceremony, Spectacle, and Social Occasion
Music for Characterization
Music to Move the Affections
The Sources of the Music
Extant Plays Presented by Children's Companies, 1597-1613
A List of Lyrics and Musical Sources to 1700

Editorial Reviews

Austern's book will become the standard work on children's drama and an important souce for reference for years to come.

Howard Mayer Brown

This volume covers the field admirably and in a genuinely interdisciplinary way.

Michael Shapiro