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Article: A Score for the Lord's Masque by Thomas Campion.
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- December 1, 1994
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Thomas Campion's masque celebrating the marriage of Frederick V to the "royally descended" Lady Elizabeth issued from the press in 1613, shortly after the festive and (without question) costly event took place. The Lords' Masque, the title by which it is generally known, ran to sixteen sides of text in the first printed edition; Orpheus plays a key role in the drama, and muse has even greater importance here than in the average masque of the period. Yet despite the presence of songs and references to music scattered throughout Campion's short text, not a note of music appears. And therein lies a problem.
When we judge a Renaissance masque today solely by its poetic ...
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