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English song; Dowland to Purcell
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- English
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- New York : C. Scribner's Sons, [1974]
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- 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 068413621X, 9780684136219, 0713407565, 9780713407563
- OCLC
- ocm00927869, ocm00927869
- Bibliography: pages 261-288.
- Part one : Lutesong and continuo song. John Dowland and the lutesong ; The new men and the new music -- Part two : The court ayre. Henry Lawes' "tunefull and well measr'd song" ; Lanier, Wilson and the songs of some lesser composers -- Part three : Interlude and interregnum. The catch and the glee -- Part four : Songs of the restoration court and stage. "Ayres and songs sung at court ..." ; "... and at the publick theatres" -- Part five : Orpheus Britannicus and Amphion Anglicus. Henry Purcell's development as a songwriter ; The songs of Blow and some younger contemporaries -- Bibliography of seventeenth-century song-books -- Lists of principal manuscript song-books, 1600-1660