Henry Lawes
Subtitle: Cavalier Songwriter (Oxford Monographs on Music)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: July 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780198165569
Subjects: Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Vocal music; c 1600 to c 1700; Music Of The 17th Century; Music; Biography / Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; General; Genres & Styles - Classical; Biography & Autobiography / General; Music / Classical; Music : Genres & Styles - Classical; Music : History & Criticism - General; Composers & Musicians - General; History & Criticism - General; 1596-1662; Biography; Composers; England; Lawes, Henry,
Description: "Henry Lawes (1596-1662) has long been acknowledged as the most important and prolific English songwriter between the death of John Dowland in 1626 and the birth of Henry Purcell in 1659. He is celebrated as Milton's collaborator in Comus (1634). Although he wrote some church music, Lawes's significance as a composer lies in his settings of many of the choicest lyrics by Cavalier poets such as Carew, Herrick, Suckling, and Waller - who, like Lawes himself, belonged to the brilliant court of Charles I. This book combines an account of his life with a study of his development as a songwriter during this period."--Jacket.