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The Heaven Singing - Music in Early English Religious Drama I (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Heaven Singing - Music in Early English Religious Drama I (Paperback, New Ed)
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Its scope is impressive... a formidable achievement, indispensable
for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.
MEDIUM AEVUM 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. Where should there
be music in an anonymous English religious play of the fifteenth or
sixteenth century? What sort of music should it be, and by what
forces should it be performed? This volume shows how music was used
at the time of the plays' production, both through a close
examination of individual texts, and of the place of music in the
intellectual and artistic life of the middle ages. Richard Rastall
begins by discussing the internal literary evidence of theplay
texts, the surviving notated music in the plays, and documentary
evidence of productions, before turning to the wider cultural
context in which the plays were composed and performed. He
considers the representational and dynamic functions of music in
the plays, the relationship between music, drama and liturgy, and
the performers themselves - who they were, and what they might be
expected to do. Related factors necessary to the discovery of how
musicwas used in late medieval drama are also considered, from
medieval cosmology and the numerical construction of plays to the
age and size of boy actors. Dr RICHARD RASTALL is Reader in
Historical Musicology at the University of Leeds, and Dean of the
Faculty of Arts.
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