Some Other Note

The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Drama History & Criticism, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism, Reference
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Author: Ross W. Duffin ISBN: 9780190856625
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: January 9, 2018
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Ross W. Duffin
ISBN: 9780190856625
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: January 9, 2018
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.

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English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.

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