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Name: Henry Lawes
Birth Date: January 5, 1596
Death Date: October 21, 1662
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Henry Lawes
4,971 words, approx. 17 pages
Henry Lawes was the preeminent songwriter among the musicians associated with the court of Charles I. He was especially valued and praised by contemporary poets because the style of early baroque monody, or continuo, song, which he developed as a...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Henry Lawes Information
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Henry Lawes (December 5, 1595 - October 21, 1662) was an English musician and composer. He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous...


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Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter.(Review)
09/01/2001: 790 words, approx. 3 pages
SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter. By Ian Spink. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xix, 172 p. ISBN 0-19-816556-0. $70.] With some 430 songs to his credit, Henry Lawes was by far...
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Henry Considers Law School Dean Post
03/15/1991: 408 words, approx. 1 pages
GD99;AGB;IP1,1.6;MC2;ITS;PS66,102;XP;END; By Ron Jenkins Attorney General Robert Henry confirmed Thursday he is considering applying for the post of Oklahoma City University law school dean. Sources said Henry, who has been rumored as a possible opponent of U.S. Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., in...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Franklin R. Baruch
8,635 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Baruch argues that in his masque Comus Milton characterizes Lawes, who plays the role of the Attendant Spirit, as the teacher and dramatic guide for the Egerton children.
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Critical Essay by Lydia Hamessley
8,016 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following excerpt, an expanded version of a lecture delivered in 1991, Hamessley considers whether, in setting Katherine Philip's poetry to music, Lawes projected, masked, or suppressed the lesbian voice.
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Critical Essay by John T. Shawcross
3,120 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Shawcross discusses the music Lawes composed for Milton's masque Comus, arguing that the text may have been altered after the composition of the music.
 


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