Enchanting Arcadia

Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor Emeritus of Music and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University.

Preface Introduction Editorial Notes Musical Contents Figures Old Arcadia Singing Characters Synopsis First Book First Eclogues Second Book Second Eclogues Third Book Third Eclogues Fourth Book Fourth Eclogues Fifth Book Astrophel and Stella (1591) Arcadia (1593) (New Arcadia) First Book First Eclogues Third Book Third Eclogues Arcadia (1598) Certaine Sonets Lady of May Appendix Accession Day Tilt (1577) A Poetical Rapsody (1602) Conclusion Music Sources Index to Poems & Song Models Index of Instruments Cited Index of Singing Characters

"This is an unabashedly experimental and practical book of musical sources, with introductory headnotes supplied for each of the settings that spell out the reasons for pairing the music with the poetry, and enumerating any difficulties, caveats, or special features to be considered in playing or listening to the music."-Andrew Zurcher, author of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: A Reading Guide "Ross Duffin has a well-established reputation for his ability to breathe musical life into texts that have lost their tunes. This edition, however, breaks new ground in providing melodies not for songs dramatic works- Shakespeare's plays, comic plays and court masques-but rather literary and poetic works not so readily associated with performance, at least to modern readers. As such it challenges preconceptions of Sidney's verse as literary and design to be read (even if aloud), by enabling us to rehear his lyrics as tuneful, harmonised, song."-Katherine Butler, author of Music in Elizabethan Court Politics