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A newly-identified setting of Herbert’s “Even-song” by John Jenkins
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Jackson, Simon and Callon, Gordon J. (2012) A newly-identified setting of Herbert’s “Even-song” by John Jenkins. George Herbert Journal, 36 (1-2). pp. 23-51. doi:10.1353/ghj.2012.0015 ISSN 1931-1192.
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Abstract
George Herbert’s reputation as a musical poet has a long history – a reputation justified by the content of his lyrics themselves, where musical conceits spark his devotional poetic imagination. The poet frequently finds himself “Rising and falling” on the wings of liturgical music (“Church-musick”); or his lyrics offer detailed musical emblems, as in “Easter” when the lute becomes the wood of the cross, on which Christ’s “stretched sinews taught all strings, what key / Is best to celebrate this most high day” (“Easter”); and – as in these lines from “Easter,” where his musical emblem rings with a pun on “taught/taut” – his lyric ear is constantly alert to the aural potential and quasi-musical properties of language. Herbert was frequently identified by his contemporaries with “David, and the other Psalm-men” as “the sweet singer of the Temple,” and his own musical activities are well documented. As his early biographer Izaac Walton noted,
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | George Herbert Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | George Herbert Journal | ||||||
ISSN: | 1931-1192 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||||
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Volume: | 36 | ||||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 23-51 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/ghj.2012.0015 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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