Routledge Music Companions

Prologue: Intermedial Earliness,

Part I: Music and Early Modern Writings, Writing the Music of the âNew Worldâ: Representing Alterity in Early Modern French Accounts of Tupinamba Songs, Translating Echoes: British interpretations of Indian rÄgamÄlÄ poetry and painting in the eighteenth century, The Spring Grass Studio Anthology of Qin Music and Musical Writings (Chuncaotang qinpu): A Vignette of Music, Prose, and Literati Ideals in Eighteenth-Century Hangzhou, China, Popularising the Morris Dance in William Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder, Thwick-a-thwack: Metallic Music in Early Modern London, Composer Anecdotes and the Musical Press in the Late 18th Century, Pudica Siren: Multilingual Poetic Tributes to the Italian Singer Leonora Baroni in Seicento Rome,

Part II: Political Voices, Ballads, Ayres, and Collective Memory in the Performance of Refrains in Early Modern England, Moll Cutpurse, Mad Tom, and the Politics of Noise in Early Modern London, Unsung Songs: Sonic Histories in 'Thomas of Woodstock', Pastoral Allegories in 16th-Century Madrigals: A Symbolic Framework for Crisis and Rebirth, The Medium of Life: Learned Wit in the Catch and Glee Repertoire, Songs as Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England,

Part III: Staging the Early Modern, Performing Nothing: Shakespeare Plays with Music, Interweaving Song: Communal Female Singing and Sewing on the Early Modern English Stage, âWith Tears I Complain about Theeâ: Literary Traditions of Lovesickness and Lamenting on the Spanish Musical Stage, Discovery and Disguise: Tracing the Bellmanâs Cry in Early Modern English Drama, âListen to the speech of a good oratorâ: Rhetoric and recitative at the intersection of speech and song, Image, Text, and Sound in Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartâs Cos¬ fan tutte (1790), Textual strategies in contemporary Shakespeare opera adaptations: The Tempest (Thomas Ad¨s) and Hamlet (Brett Dean),

Part IV: Early Modern Afterlives, âI strive thy name to singâ: Music, Metaphor and Meaning in 17th-Century English Devotional Lyrics and their modern afterlives, Paracelsus, Fouqu©, Hoffmann: Elemental Spirits and the âQuest for Natureâ in German Romantic Literature and Opera, Salon Culture and the Fluid Boundaries of Art in the Early Romantic: The intertwinement of Music and Poetry in Louise Reichardt's Songs, Tolkien, the Gawain-Poet, and Music, âPop Petrarchismâ: The Love Songs by The Beatles as a Petrarchan Songbook, As Others See Us: Robert Burns and National Identity in Scottish Folk and Popular Music 1970s-1980s, Back to Bach: Music and Universality in Richard Powersâs The Gold Bug Variations, âAll sorts of flowers that grow up from the earth': John Darnielle's uses of the past.