Music was a regular feature in the Renaissance English theatre; there are, for example, more than 100 songs scattered throughout the texts of Shakespeare’s plays (Where the Bee Sucks, Under the ...

Spain here suffered not a whit in comparison with Italy and England — or, for that matter, the Franco-Flemish masters of the Renaissance. There was, however, less attempt at illustrating texts ...

Object Details author Lang, Paul Henry 1901-1991 Author Bettmann, Otto Notes "Text based on Music in Western civilization, by Paul Henry Lang, copyright 1941" Contents I. Antiquity, Middle Ages, ...

“Lamentation” is drawn from Renaissance England, almost entirely from the Tudor era. The program features some familiar names, Thomas Tallis (c.1505-85) and William Byrd (c.1505-85), as well as some ...

The Pop-Up Renaissance Concert was organized by the course Music 181R: “Performance and Culture: Renaissance Music'' on Nov. 16 in the Calderwood Courtyard of the Harvard Art Museums.

Composers of church music had to be adaptable. Despite the challenges, the 16th and 17th centuries in England saw a great flowering of church music.

The recent book by Prof. Schelling on "The English Chronicle Play," traced the rise and growth of what may be called the National, Indigenous, or popular phase of English literature in the England ...

Yet the Tudor century remade English politics, religion and art, from the Reformation to “Wolf Hall.” “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England,” now at the Metropolitan Museum ...