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...

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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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.

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.

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.