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“Change Partners and Dance”: Pastoral Virtuosity in Wroth’s Love’s Victory
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Nelson, Karen L. M. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | In Words and Music in the Middle Ages: Song, Narrative, Dance, and Drama, 1050–1350, John Stevens refers to medieval traditions of dance-song as he describes the many variants associated with pastourelle, which combines “the courtly chanson and dance-song.” He further suggests, “The pastourelle is a sophisticated genre where several traditions meet; it is an imaginative literary and musical plaything.” He notes the genre's “aural geometry,” which “derives [its elaborate sense of pattern] in part from verbal factors.” Stevens also observes that the verbal designs intersect structurally with musical patterns.1 Conventional scholarly reliance upon Virgilian origins for the literary histories of pastoral literature obscures its connections to other powerful performance and visual traditions associated with the genre, at least for its early modern compositors, performers, authors, readers, and viewers. Placing Wroth's play Love's Victory into conversation with the aesthetics and stylistics that permeate musical and dance production allows attention to its strengths, its artifice and ornament, its manipulation of rhythm and meter, its composed fusion of sources and genres. In particular, the dance performance practices embedded in this pastoral tragicomedy, manifested in its groupings of characters, its shifts in tempo, and its symmetries, offer a means to interpret its performance. Wroth constructs a play text with enormous potential for performance once its choreographies come to the surface, and this essay begins the analysis of how an appreciation of early modern composed dance forms can and should suffuse our understanding of Wroth.2 |
| Starting Page | 137 |
| Ending Page | 156 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137473349_9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1057/9781137473349_9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137473349_9 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
