With Mornefull Musique: Funeral Elegies in Early Modern England Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 “With Mornefull Musique”: The English Musical Funeral Elegy
- 2 “The Floure of England”: The Earliest Musical Elegies for Sir Philip Sidney
- 3 “Of Griefe and Honour Still”: Elizabethan Courtiers
- 4 “Say Death Hath Lost”: Knights of the Realm
- 5 “Weepe Forth Your Teares”: Laments for a Lost King
- 6 “A Flower of Beutye”: The Feminine Legacy of Queens and Matriarchs
- 7 “For Death of Her”: The Unusual Case of Mary Gascoigne
- 8 “And Music Dies ...”: Musicians and their Stories
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Recordings List
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Titles listed here were originally published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–1900
- New titles published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–2000
Appendix: Recordings List
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 “With Mornefull Musique”: The English Musical Funeral Elegy
- 2 “The Floure of England”: The Earliest Musical Elegies for Sir Philip Sidney
- 3 “Of Griefe and Honour Still”: Elizabethan Courtiers
- 4 “Say Death Hath Lost”: Knights of the Realm
- 5 “Weepe Forth Your Teares”: Laments for a Lost King
- 6 “A Flower of Beutye”: The Feminine Legacy of Queens and Matriarchs
- 7 “For Death of Her”: The Unusual Case of Mary Gascoigne
- 8 “And Music Dies ...”: Musicians and their Stories
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Recordings List
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Titles listed here were originally published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–1900
- New titles published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–2000
Summary
Only some of the elegies discussed in this volume are available as commercial recordings. The following are recommended for listening when reading. Items with an asterisk are available through the Naxos Music Library.
CHAPTER 2
William Byrd, “Come to Me Grief “
*Michael Chance, Fretwork, Armada: Music from the Courts of England and Spain (Virgin Classics, 2000)
William Byrd, “O That Most Rare Breast”
*Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, dir., William Byrd: Psalmes, Sonets and Songs (Decca, 2003; original release Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981)
William Byrd, “Why Do I Use”
*I Fagiolini, Concordia, The Caged Byrd: Music for Voices, Viols & Harpsichord, from a Time of Persecution, Vol. 2 (Chandos, 1997)
CHAPTER 3
Thomas Morley, “Hark, Alleluia”
*Tallis Scholars, English Madrigals (Gimell, 2007; original release 1982) Thomas Weelkes, “Noel, Adieu Thou Court's Delight”
*Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, dir., Thomas Weelkes: Anthems and Madrigals (Alto, 2013; original release 1999)
Martin Peerson, “Where Shall a Sorrow/Dead Noble Brooke”
I Fagiolini, Fretwork, A Treatie of Humane Love: Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique (1630) (Regent, 2016)
CHAPTER 4
Thomas Weelkes, “Cease Now Delight”
*Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, dir., Thomas Weelkes: Anthems and Madrigals (Alto, 2013; original release 1999)
Richard Carlton, “Sound Saddest Notes” *Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly, dir., English Madrigals and Songs from Henry VIII to the 20th Century (Naxos, 2005; original release 1996)
John Coprario, Funeral Teares
*Emma Kirkby, The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, dir., Coprario: Funeral Teares/Consort Music (Eloquence, 2011; original release Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1979)
CHAPTER 5
Elegies for Prince Henry:
*Elizabeth Kenny and Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch, dir., Dialogues of Sorrow: Passions on the Death of Prince Henry (1612) (Signum Classics, 2010)
Includes:
John Ward, “Weep Forth Your Tears”
John Ward, “No Object Dearer”
Thomas Ford, “’Tis Now Dead Night”
William Cranford, “Weep, Britons, Weep”
Thomas Vautor, “Melpomene, Bewail Thy Sister's Loss”
Robert Ramsey, “What Tears, Dear Prince”
John Coprario, Songs of Mourning (selections)
Thomas Campion, “All Looks Be Pale”
*Michael Chance, Nigel North, English Ayres (Linn Records, 2000) John Coprario, Songs of Mourning
*The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, dir., Songs of Mourning/ Consort Music (Decca, 2011; original release 1977)
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- With Mornefull Musique: Funeral Elegies in Early Modern EnglandFuneral Elegies in Early Modern England, pp. 237 - 239Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018