English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffi...
For nearly a century, equal temperament - the practice of dividing an octave into twelve equally proportioned half-steps - has held a virtual monopoly on the way in which instruments are tuned and played. This book presents a reasoned expose of musica...
Shakespeare lovers lament that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about 60 song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150 years, scholars have aspired - without success - to fill that gap. 'Shak...