Christopher Marsh

Music and Society in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1060g
• ISBN-13: 9781107610248
• ISBN-10: 1107610249
• Artikelnr.: 37783256

Autorenporträt

Christopher Marsh is a Reader in Early Modern History at Queen's University Belfast. His previous publications include The Family of Love in English Society (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England (1998). He is also the author of the satirical novel A Year in the Province (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The power of music
2. Occupational musicians: denigration and defence
3. Occupational musicians: employment prospects
4. Recreational musicians
5. Ballads and their audience
6. Balladry and the meanings of melody
7. 'The skipping art': dance and society
8. Parish church music: the rise of the 'singing psalms'
9. Parish church music: bells and their ringers
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography.