Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780521036290
Subjects: Music; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Poetry; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Music : History & Criticism - General; Music and literature--History--17th century; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
First sentence: Brady's words sum up a musical conception of the cosmos, and Purcell's music offers auricular proof: jarring chords by tremulous strings on "jarring Seeds" beg for resolution, voices agree homo-phonically on "agree" and scatter in separate lines on "scatter'd," various voice parts sing "various Parts," modulation displays harmonic proportions on "true proportion," and a lingering cadence on "one Perfect Harmony" ends with one perfect tonic chord.