Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England

Abstract

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.