Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England

Contents

• List of musical examples
• Acknowledgements
• Editions and abbreviations
• Note on musical editions
• Note on orthography
• Introduction
• 1. Nature's voice: concent of words and music
• 2. The concinnity of the arts and the church music controversy
• 3. Tuning the instrument: Donne's temporal and extemporal song
• 4. The choir in Herbert's temple
• 5. 'Sole, or responsive': voices in Milton's choirs
• 6. Empire of the ear: the praise of music
• Appendix I. Music, poems and iconography for the liturgical year
• Appendix II. Chronology
• Appendix III. Glossary of musical and liturgical terms
• Notes
• Discography
• Bibliography
• Index.