University of Kentucky UKnowledge Music Arts and Humanities 1968 Music in English Renaissance Drama John H. Long Greensboro College Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at
[email protected]. Recommended Citation Long, John H., "Music in English Renaissance Drama" (1968). Music. 2. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_music/2 MUSIC IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA This page intentionally left blank MUSIC IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA CONTRIBUTORS Nan Cooke Carpenter Ernest Brennecke Ian Spink R. W. Ingram MacDonald Emslie Willa McClung Evans Vincent Duckles EDITED BY John H. Long University of Kentucky Press Lexington 1968 Copyright © 1968 University of Kentucky Press Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-12969 INTRODUCTION It is the purpose of this volume to present some significant examples of the use of music in English dramatic and semidramatic works composed and presented between the years 1550 and 1650, a span of a century which for this limited purpose shall serve as a temporal definition of the English Renaissance. The bulk of scholarship devoted to the subject in the past has been limited largely to the works of one playwright, Shakespeare, and to one semidramatic form, the court masque. Monumental as Shakespeare was and is, and magnificent as the court masques were, they did not encompass completely the versatility with which music was employed for dramatic purposes during the period, in the works of lesser play wrights or in the elaborate "entertainments," the interludes, the pageants, the folk-plays, and other more-or-less dramatic productions that, in intent and practice, merged one into another to defy formal categorization.