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The matter of song in early modern England : texts in and of the air (Record no. 567415)
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| fixed length control field | 01586nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 241224b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780192865526 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Larson, Katherine R. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The matter of song in early modern England : texts in and of the air |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Katherine R. Larson |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Oxford |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiv, 245 p. |
| Other physical details | : illustrations |
| Dimensions | 23 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Matter of Song in Early Modern England considers the implications of reading song not simply as lyric text but as an embodied and gendered musical practice. Animating the traces of song preserved in physiological and philosophical commentaries, singing handbooks, poetic treatises, and literary texts ranging from Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalmes to John Milton's Comus, the book confronts song's ephemerality, its lexical and sonic capriciousness, and its airy substance. These features can resist critical analysis but were vital to song's affective workings in the early modern period. The volume foregrounds the need to attend much more closely to the embodied and musical dimensions of literary production and circulation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It also makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of women's engagement with song as writers and as performers. A companion recording of fourteen songs featuring Larson (soprano) and Lucas Harris (lute) brings the project's innovative methodology and central case studies to life. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Ballads, English - England-16th century - History and criticism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Reference |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 6TH FLOOR, B WING | 17.10.2024 | 699028 | 24.12.2024 | Reference |