Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. A winner of multiple awards from Early Music America and the American Musicological Society, his scholarship on early modern English song is best known from his Shakespeare's Songbook. He has also published widely in historical performance practice, including on musical iconography, historical pronunciation, theory, notation, improvisation, and tuning.

"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

• PrefaceIntroductionEditorial NotesMusical ContentsFiguresOld ArcadiaSinging CharactersSynopsisFirst BookFirst EcloguesSecond BookSecond EcloguesThird BookThird EcloguesFourth BookFourth EcloguesFifth BookAstrophel and Stella (1591)Arcadia (1593) (New Arcadia)First BookFirst EcloguesThird BookThird EcloguesArcadia (1598)Certaine SonetsLady of MayAppendixAccession Day Tilt (1577)A Poetical Rapsody (1602)ConclusionMusic SourcesIndex to Poems & Song ModelsIndex of Instruments CitedIndex of Singing Characters

Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. A winner of multiple awards from Early Music America and the American Musicological Society, his scholarship on early modern English song is best known from his Shakespeare's Songbook. He has also published widely in historical performance practice, including on musical iconography, historical pronunciation, theory, notation, improvisation, and tuning.

"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

• PrefaceIntroductionEditorial NotesMusical ContentsFiguresOld ArcadiaSinging CharactersSynopsisFirst BookFirst EcloguesSecond BookSecond EcloguesThird BookThird EcloguesFourth BookFourth EcloguesFifth BookAstrophel and Stella (1591)Arcadia (1593) (New Arcadia)First BookFirst EcloguesThird BookThird EcloguesArcadia (1598)Certaine SonetsLady of MayAppendixAccession Day Tilt (1577)A Poetical Rapsody (1602)ConclusionMusic SourcesIndex to Poems & Song ModelsIndex of Instruments CitedIndex of Singing Characters