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Three Books on English Song - David Lindley, Thomas Campion. Medieval and Renaissance Authors, 7. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1986. xii + 242 pp. ISBN 90 04 07601 8. - Winifred Maynard, Elizabethan Lyric Poetry and its Music. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986. xiii + 246 pp. ISBN 0 19 812844 4. - Ian Spink, English Song, Dowland to Purcell. London, Batsford, paperback edition, 1986. viii + 310 pp. ISBN 0 7134 5158 0.

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Christopher R. Wilson
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 112 , Issue 2 , 1987 , pp. 326 - 330
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Copyright © 1987 Royal Musical Association

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References

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2 See, for example, Miles Merwin Kastendieck, England’s Musical Poet (New York, 1938) and Maynard, Elizabethan Lyric Poetry, 96-112.Google Scholar

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