With mornefull musique : funeral elegies in early modern England

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Label

With mornefull musique : funeral elegies in early modern England

Title remainder

funeral elegies in early modern England

Statement of responsibility

K. Dawn Grapes

Creator

• Grapes, K. Dawn

Author

• Grapes, K. Dawn

Subject

• Bestattungsmusik
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Elegiac poetry, English
• Elegiac poetry, English
• Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism
• Elegie
• Elegie
• England
• England
• England
• England
• Funeral music
• Funeral music
• Funeral music -- England -- 16th century -- History and criticism
• Funeral music -- England -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• History
• History
• Lyrik
• Lyrik
• Trauermusik
• Trauermusik
• 1500-1599
• Bestattungsmusik

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England. In particular, it examines musical funeral elegies and the people related to commemorative tribute - the departed, the composer, potential patrons, and friends and family of the deceased - to determine the place these musical-poetic texts held in a society in which issues of death were discussed regularly, producing a constant, pervasive shadow over everyday life. The composition of these songs reached a peak at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley both composed musical elegies, as did William Byrd, Thomas Campion, John Coprario, and many others. Like the literary genre from which these musical gems emerged, there was wide variety in form, style, length, and vocabulary used. Embedded within them are clear messages regarding the social expectations, patronage traditions, and class hierarchy of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England. En masse, they offer a glimpse into the complex relationship that existed between those who died, those who grieved, and attitudes toward both death and life."

Member of

• Music in Britain, 1600-2000, 21

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

781.5/880942

Illustrations

• illustrations
• music

Index

index present

LC call number

ML286.2

LC item number

.G73 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Music in Britain, 1600-2000,

Series volume

21