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The Singing ‘Vice’: Music and Mischief in Early English Drama
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsAmidst non-textuality and the resulting shortage of extant scores to serve as documentation of musical activity, even the most restrained speculative approach still leads to the conclusion that music and musicians were crucial both to the emergence of the interlude as a genre of household entertainment and in the actual performance of interludes. -
Letters shed new light on Rule Britannia
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsNew accounts of the first performance of Rule Britannia uncovered suggest that it was not initially received as an anthem of triumphant British national identity but as a reinforcement of opposition to King George II. -
Ballads, Culture and Performance in England 1640-1660
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsThis study argues that ballads were a uniquely potent cultural medium. Because ballads were used for popular entertainment, the discourses about contemporary political and religious controversies contained in them pervaded culture more so than messages contained in other kinds of print. -
‘The Steam Arm’: Proto-Steampunk Themes in a Victorian Popular Song
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No Comments‘The Steam Arm’: Proto-Steampunk Themes in a Victorian Popular Song Blair, Kirstie (University of Glasgow) Neo-Victorian Studies, Vol.3:1 (2010) Abstract This article introduces an early Victorian popular song, with some... -
Music at the New Globe
Posted on March 6, 2010 | No CommentsMusic at the New Globe Schütz, Chantal Early Modern Literary Studies 7.1/ Special Issue 8 (May, 2001) Abstract The New Globe, a full scale authentic "instrument", opened in summer 1997.... -
Henry VIII – King of Tunes
Posted on February 27, 2010 | No CommentsKing Henry the VIII is chiefly associated with gluttony, lechery and murder. Surprisingly, it turns out he was also a deeply sensitive soul, who liked to express himself by penning... -
Trombe, Trombe d’argento, Trombe squarciate, Tromboni, and Pifferi in Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsTrombe, Trombe d'argento, Trombe squarciate, Tromboni, and Pifferi in Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Koldau, Linda Maria & Kurtzman, Jeffrey Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol.... -
Reflections on Four Charpentier Chronologies
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsReflections on Four Charpentier Chronologies Thompson, Shirley Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2001) Abstract To date, four scholars have attempted to establish a chronology of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s... -
Response to Kimberlyn Montford
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Kimberlyn Montford Kendrick, Robert Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Emphasizes importance of special occasions, such as feast days of titular or founding saints... -
L’Anno santo and Female Monastic Churches: The Politics, Business and Music of the Holy Year in Rome (1675)
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsL’Anno santo and Female Monastic Churches: The Politics, Business and Music of the Holy Year in Rome (1675) Montford, Kimberlyn Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract The... -
Response to Edmond Strainchamps
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Edmond Strainchamps Parisi, Susan Journal of Seventeenth-Century Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract Ferdinando Gonzaga may not have felt as disappointed by Gagliano's decision as implied in Strainchamps's... -
Marco da Gagliano in 1608: Choices, Decisions, and Consequences
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsMarco da Gagliano in 1608: Choices, Decisions, and Consequences Strainchamps, Edmond Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No.1 Abstract This article examines, through a series of documents drawn from archives... -
Response to Noel O’Regan
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Noel O'Regan Holzer, Robert R. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract A response to Noel O'Regan, "Asprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of... -
Asprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of the Roman Concerto Ecclesiastico
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsAsprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of the Roman Concerto Ecclesiastico O' Regan, Noel Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract In his Cento Concerti Ecclesiastici... -
Some Problems of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsSome Problems of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music Schulenberg, David Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1998) Abstract Manuscripts of Italian keyboard music... -
Passacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsPassacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin Silbiger, Alexander Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 1, No. 1(1996) Abstract The simultaneous survival of such closely similar genres... -
A Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsA Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century Sanford, Sally A. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1995) Abstract Although Italian and French solo vocal... -
Far il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsFar il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century Glixon, Jonathan Journal of Seventeenth Century Music, Vol. 1, No.1 (1995) Abstract Accounts of sacred musical... -
Digital versions of two musical manuscripts released online
Posted on December 20, 2009 | No CommentsDigital versions of Handel's Messiah and My Ladye Nevells Booke - a unique 16th-century volume of keyboard music by William Byrd, was launched online by the British Library at: www.bl.uk/turningthepages....





