Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Poetry and Music; Prologue; Chapter 1: Music for Meter and Rhythm; Chapter 2: Music for Lines and Stanzas; Part II: English Songs and Their Poetry; Prologue; Chapter 3: Measured Music; Chapter 4: Dance Songs and Tuneful Airs; Chapter 5: English Monody; Chapter 6: Pathetic Airs; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
The years 1957-1651 marked a period of high achievement in the history of song. In The Well-Tund Word Elise Bickford Jorgens studies changing musical conventions of English song in relation to new patterns in poetic taste from the late Elizabethan era th
