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William Byrd as Literary Innovator
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This chapter examines how Byrd’s three major song collections, published in 1588, 1589, and 1611, were motivated by questions of genre and poetics. Several scholars have discussed the earlier two songbooks, their relation to Philip Sidney, and how they approximate a sonnet sequence in song form, but little has been done with their connection to Byrd’s final songbook in 1611 as a capstone to his work in this form. Byrd’s song sequences put Sidney’s musico-literary theory into practice and foreground Byrd’s sequences as modes of performance that exceed the coterie poetic circulation of manuscripts. This chapter connects the 1611 collection to the earlier two and considers how Byrd crafted his songbooks with an eye to literary sequence genres that were popular at the same time.
Liverpool University Press
Title: William Byrd as Literary Innovator
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This chapter examines how Byrd’s three major song collections, published in 1588, 1589, and 1611, were motivated by questions of genre and poetics.
Several scholars have discussed the earlier two songbooks, their relation to Philip Sidney, and how they approximate a sonnet sequence in song form, but little has been done with their connection to Byrd’s final songbook in 1611 as a capstone to his work in this form.
Byrd’s song sequences put Sidney’s musico-literary theory into practice and foreground Byrd’s sequences as modes of performance that exceed the coterie poetic circulation of manuscripts.
This chapter connects the 1611 collection to the earlier two and considers how Byrd crafted his songbooks with an eye to literary sequence genres that were popular at the same time.
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