Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance Book

	List of Illustrations
	Introduction to the Series
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Ch. 1	The Children's Drama Companies	1
	The Children of the Chapel before 1600	3
	The Children of Paul's before 1597	4
	The Children of Paul's, 1597-1607	5
	The Children of the Chapel, 1600-1613	7
	The Children of the King's Revels	10
	The Child Actors	10
Ch. 2	The Performers and Their Theaters	15
	The Players	16
	The Roles	21
	Off-stage Musicians	24
	The Theaters	25
Ch. 3	The Plays and Playwrights	31
	Music and English Renaissance Drama	32
	The Audience	34
	Types of Drama	35
	The Playwrights	42
Ch. 4	Practical Music and the Dramatic Text	49
	Song	50
	Unaccompanied song	52
	Accompanied and polyphonic song	54
	"Musicke"	59
	Musical Instruments	61
	The loud instruments	63
	The softer wind instruments	68
	Bowed string instruments	70
	Plucked string instruments	73
	Other instruments	74
Ch. 5	Preliminary, Inter-Act and Finale Music	79
	Preliminary Music	81
	Inter-act Music	83
	Finale Music	93
Ch. 6	Music for Ceremony, Spectacle and Social Occasion	95
	Masques	96
	Non-masque Dances	104
	Weddings	110
	Banquets	115
	Religious Ritual and Worship	118
	Funerals	121
	Armed Combat	124
	Serenades	124
Ch. 7	Music for Characterization	131
	Tradesmen, Artisans, Citizens and Rogues	134
	Professional Musicians	147
	Servants	150
	Gentry and Nobility	152
	Women	155
	Supernatural Beings	161
Ch. 8	Music to Move the Affections	167
	Speculative Music and Cosmic Harmony	168
	The Musical Cosmos in the Children's Theater	171
	Love	177
	Melancholy	187
	Death	190
	Magic and the Fantastic	195
Ch. 9	The Sources of the Music	203
	Elizabethan and Jacobean Publications by Single Composers	204
	Elizabethan and Jacobean Anthologies Inclusive of Instructions for Playing	209
	The Ravenscroft Sources and Their Concordances	212
	Jacobean Manuscripts	219
	Caroline and Later Published Anthologies	224
	Caroline and Later Manuscripts	227
	Miscellaneous Sources of Popular Balladry	229
Ch. 10	The Musical Styles	233
	Madrigalian Compositions	235
	The Consort Song	242
	The Ayre	254
	Miscellaneous Popular Song	266
	Appendix A: Extant Plays Presented by Children's Companies, 1597-1613	273
	Appendix B: A List of Lyrics and Musical Sources to 1700	279
	Notes	309
	Bibliography	333
	Index	363