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Minstrels Playing - Music in Early English Religious Drama II (Hardcover)
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Minstrels Playing - Music in Early English Religious Drama II (Hardcover)
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MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the
subject from which the present volume follows on with examination
of the individual plays: 'A formidable achievement, indispensable
for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.'
Richard Rastall's two books on music in early English religious
drama complement each other. Heaven Singing provides an overview of
the evidence for music in the plays, and defines the place, nature
and cultural contexts ofmusic in the drama; Minstrels Playing is a
discussion of the evidence for every play in that repertory, and is
therefore concerned with the place and nature of musical
performance in each play individually. Followinghis general
discussion of music in the anonymous religious plays of 15th- and
16th-century England in The Heaven Singing (1996), this companion
volume turns to the individual biblical, saint and moral plays.
Richard Rastallplaces each in its intellectual and cultural
context, and notes the surviving evidence for music and other aural
effects in the dramatic directions, text references, use of Latin
and the liturgy, and the existing documentary records. At the end
of each chapter a cue-list shows where the music should appear and
presents the arguments for specific repertory and performance
modes, providing an invaluable aid for directors. This leads on to
a section on modern performance, in which Dr Rastall discusses a
wide range of issues that impinge on the practicalities of
providing music in early English drama and raise problems and
queries for producers and musical directors: the type of staging
and the nature of the set, the choice of cast, the choice of
musical items, the training and rehearsing of singers, and much
else. Dr RICHARD RASTALL is Reader in Historical Musicology and
Dean of the Faculty of Music, Visualand Performing Arts at the
University of Leeds.
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