{"product_id":"enchanting-arcadia-1","title":"Enchanting Arcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney was one of Elizabethan England's greatest poets, producing an enormous body of poetry, voluminous letters, and his seminal treatise, \u003ci\u003eThe Defence of Poesi\u003c\/i\u003ee. He also loved music, describing \"words set in delightfull proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of \u003ci\u003eMusicke\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Most notably, his pastoral romance,\u003ci\u003e Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e, is filled with poems described as songs, with descriptions of characters singing, sometimes to a particular instrument, and to tunes that are variously \"joyful,\" \"doleful,\" \"lamentable,\" or \"ravishing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAside from a few specific tune titles provided by Sidney, however, most of these \"songs\" remain without known music. \u003ci\u003eEnchanting Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e fills this void, setting almost 100 of the Arcadia's songs to period music. Using his extensive knowledge of early modern English song, Ross W. Duffin has carefully matched musical models to Sidney's poems using works by composers such as William Byrd, John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Thomas Campion, Robert Jones, and William Corkine, all of whom had some connection to Sidney or his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnchanting Arcadia \u003c\/i\u003eaims to realize at long last the musical enchantment of Sidney's poems, allowing modern readers to experience them not only as poems to be read silently or aloud but also as songs to be sung and enjoyed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260875252056,"sku":"9780253076533","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780253076533_263cadfb-43a6-470f-851f-c522e4072a2e.jpg?v=1778826680","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/enchanting-arcadia-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}