2021
Edité par : The Boydell Press
ISBN : 978-1-78327-421-5
1 vol. (291 p.) ; illustrations, photographies, exemples musicaux ; 25 cm

Description

The reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) has often been regarded as the Golden Age of English music. Many works of high quality, both vocal and instrumental, were composed and performed by native and immigrant musicians, while balladry and minstrelsy flourished in hall, street and alehouse. No single source of the sixteenth century presents this rich musical culture more vividly, or in a more surprising manner, than the inlaid surface of the Eglantine Table, made in the late 1560s for the family of Elizabeth or "Bess" of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (1527-1608), and now to be seen at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire

Contient : "Introducing the Eglantine table" / Christopher Page and Michael Fleming. "The Table : models and artistic context" / Anthony Wells-Cole. "Botany, the Table and Hardwick New Hall" / Claire Preston. "The playing cards and gaming boards" / Patrick Ball. "The writing implements" / Jason Scott-Warren. "The Music in staff notation" / John Milsom. "The book of lute tablature" / Matthew Spring. "A full and lively pourtraiture : the Table as evidence for Tudor musical instruments" / Michael Fleming and Christopher Page. "The bowed instruments and bows" / Michael Fleming. "The Gittern or guitar" / Christopher Page. "The cittern" / Peter Forrester. "The lute" / Matthew Spring. "The harp" / Karen Loomis. "The wind instruments" / Jeremy Montagu with Graham Wells. "The Table and the music of the 1560s" / John Milsom. "Pipers, fiddlers and the musical lives of the majority" / Christopher Marsh. "Tables of the mind" / Edward Wilson-Lee. "The renovation of the Eglantine Table by Tankerdale Ltd, 1996" / Report by John Hartley and Robin Merrifield. "The Table in the context of furnishings in Bess of Hardwick's houses" / Christopher Rowell.

Glossaire. Bibliographie pp. 251-273. Index

Œuvres étudiées

Œuvres du Musée de la musique citées dans cet ouvrage :

• "Apollon sur le Parnasse au milieu des muses" / E.981.3.8.37 / Ghisi, Giorgio / Mantoue / Italie / Europe / 16e siècle