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Blame Not Wyatt's Lute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John H. Long*
Affiliation:
Morehead State College, Kentucky
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The Point frequently has been made by students of Renaissance English lyric poetry such as Evelyn Scholl, Edmund Fellowes, et al, that appreciation and comprehension of this literary form cannot be thorough without knowledge of the musical settings to which these lyrics were sung. For many years there has been, therefore, a continuing search for the music which originally accompanied the lyrics of such poets asWyatt, Surrey, Daniels, Sidney, Campion, and many others. Some musical settings, for the lute and other instruments, have been found—Fellowes’ The English School of Lutenist Song Writers is a notable example of such collections—but none of them have included the music for the lyric poem which so obviously was written to be sung to lute music, Wyatt's ‘Blame not my lute'.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1954

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