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Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Hardcover)
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Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
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Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for
different ends, by both monarch and courtiers. Queen Elizabeth I
(1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court
musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that
music was indispensable to the state. But what roles did music play
in Elizabethan court politics? How did a musical image assist the
Queen in projecting her royal authority? What influence did her
private performances have on her courtships, diplomatic affairs,
and relationships with courtiers? To what extent did Elizabeth
control court music, or could others appropriate performances to
enhance their own status and achieve their ambitions? Could
noblemen, civic leaders, or even musicians take advantage of
Elizabeth's love of music to present their complaints and petitions
in song? This book unravels the connotations surrounding
Elizabeth's musical image and traces the political roles of music
at the Elizabethan court. It scrutinizes the most intimate
performances within the Privy Chamber, analyses the masques and
plays performed in the palaces, and explores the grandest musical
pageantry of tournaments, civic entries, and royal progresses. This
reveals how music served as a valuable means for both the tactful
influencing of policies and patronage, and the construction of
political identities and relationships. In the late Tudor period
music was simultaneously a tool of authority for the monarch and an
instrumentof persuasion for the nobility. KATHERINE BUTLER is a
Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
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