Abstract
Part 1 Introduction: music in Middle English drama the repertory - historical and fictional drama the repertory - civic, community and institutional plays. Part 2 The internal literary evidence: the manuscripts dramatic directions text references the banns lyrics and song-texts the use of Latin. Part 3 The surviving music: the Shrewsbury and Pepys fragments York Coventry Chester. Part 4 Documentary evidence: a note on money guild accounts and related records Chelmsford - nthe summer of 1562. Part 5 Music as representation: the music of heaven the music of mortals the sounds of hell realism and representation. Part 6 Music and dramatic structure: the dynamic functions of music the music of numbers - structure and proportion. Part 7 Music and liturgy: the dramatic uses of liturgical material the Presentation in the Temple the angelic announcement to the shepherds the Purification the entry into Jerusalem the Last Supper - Maundy and Mass, the mandatum, the eucharist the harrowing of Hell miscellaneous scaraments and offices - baptism, betrothal, marriage, burial, scarifice and oblation, blessing questions of provenance. Part 8 The performers: professional and amateur the problem of female roles the angels the shepherds instumentalists the audience. Appendices: editions and reconstructions - the Washington Ave regina celorum . . . Mater, the Chester Gloria in excelsis, Wee happy heardsmen here.
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