Tune Thy Musicke to Thy Hart: The Art of Eloquent Singing in England 1597–1622
ISBN: 9781487584177
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Performance practice (Music) -- 17th century; Singing -- Interpretation (Phrasing dynamics etc.);

Many singers today perform Elizabethan and Jacobean lute-songs. Robert Toft offers the first help for singers in understanding the principles which governed song performance and composition in the early seventeenth century. He shows how these historical principles may be used to move and delight modern audiences.


Toft Robert :

Robert Toft is a member of the Department of Music, University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Aural Images of Lost Traditions: Sharps and Flats in the Sixteenth Century.

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