Linda Phyllis Austern is Professor in Musicology at Northwestern University, USA. She is a specialist in Western European, and especially English, music of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. Her expertise includes the intersections between music and the visual arts, gender and sexuality, natural philosophy, and the Shakespearean theater.

Reviews of the first publication:“[Austern’s] book will become the standard work on children’s drama and an important source for reference for years to come.”— Howard Mayer Brown, University of Chicago, USA“This volume covers the field admirably and in a genuinely interdisciplinary way.”— Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, USA

• Introduction 1. The Children’s Drama Companies 2. The Performers and their Theaters 3. The Plays and Playwrights 4. Practical Music and the Dramatic Text 5. Preliminary, Inter-Act and Finale Music 6. Music for Ceremony, Spectacle and Social Occasion 7. Music for Characterization 8. Music to Move the Affections 9. The Sources of the Music 10. The Musical Styles Appendix A Extant Plays Presented by Children’s Companies 1597–1613 Appendix B A List of Lyrics and Musical Sources to 1700

Linda Phyllis Austern is Professor in Musicology at Northwestern University, USA. She is a specialist in Western European, and especially English, music of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. Her expertise includes the intersections between music and the visual arts, gender and sexuality, natural philosophy, and the Shakespearean theater.

Reviews of the first publication:“[Austern’s] book will become the standard work on children’s drama and an important source for reference for years to come.”— Howard Mayer Brown, University of Chicago, USA“This volume covers the field admirably and in a genuinely interdisciplinary way.”— Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, USA

• Introduction 1. The Children’s Drama Companies 2. The Performers and their Theaters 3. The Plays and Playwrights 4. Practical Music and the Dramatic Text 5. Preliminary, Inter-Act and Finale Music 6. Music for Ceremony, Spectacle and Social Occasion 7. Music for Characterization 8. Music to Move the Affections 9. The Sources of the Music 10. The Musical Styles Appendix A Extant Plays Presented by Children’s Companies 1597–1613 Appendix B A List of Lyrics and Musical Sources to 1700

Linda Phyllis Austern is Professor in Musicology at Northwestern University, USA. She is a specialist in Western European, and especially English, music of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. Her expertise includes the intersections between music and the visual arts, gender and sexuality, natural philosophy, and the Shakespearean theater.

Reviews of the first publication:“[Austern’s] book will become the standard work on children’s drama and an important source for reference for years to come.”— Howard Mayer Brown, University of Chicago, USA“This volume covers the field admirably and in a genuinely interdisciplinary way.”— Michael Shapiro, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, USA

• Introduction 1. The Children’s Drama Companies 2. The Performers and their Theaters 3. The Plays and Playwrights 4. Practical Music and the Dramatic Text 5. Preliminary, Inter-Act and Finale Music 6. Music for Ceremony, Spectacle and Social Occasion 7. Music for Characterization 8. Music to Move the Affections 9. The Sources of the Music 10. The Musical Styles Appendix A Extant Plays Presented by Children’s Companies 1597–1613 Appendix B A List of Lyrics and Musical Sources to 1700