In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre, 1596-1622Based on Edward Doughtie's seminal critical edition, Lyrics from English Airs, 1596-1622 (Harvard University Press, 1970), and intended as a complement to it, In Small Proportions provides the first extended examination of the ayre's literary devices and attributes. Its goal is to elaborate a poetics of the ayre as a blend of music and text - a means by which scholars, students, performers, and cultural historians may interpret the ayre's lyrics through a heightened understanding of the distinctive literary features that assure the genre a unique place in the cultural achievements of the English Renaissance. |
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Contents
List of Illustrations | 11 |
1 | 19 |
THE HIGHEST KEY OF PASSION | 71 |
3 | 80 |
5 | 146 |
6 | 191 |
7 | 217 |
POSTLUDE | 249 |
| 385 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre, 1596-1622 |
| Authors | Daniel Fischlin, Professor Department of English Daniel Fischlin |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0814326935, 9780814326930 |
| Length | 404 pages |
| Subjects | › › Music / Instruction & Study / Voice |
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