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“music” across the centuries

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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 30 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 8 / 91 1600s 17 / 178 1650s 1 / 60 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 2 / 164 1800s 18 / 687 1850s 19 / 951 1900s 40 / 1130 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1550s · 8 with this theme Show all eras

A Song to the Lute in Musicke
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A Song to the Lute in Musicke

by Richard Edwardes · English

Richard Edwardes portrait

c. 1525 - 31 October 1566 (~41)

Come woeful Orpheus
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Come woeful Orpheus

by William Byrd · English

William Byrd portrait

c. 1540 - 4 July 1623 (~83)

Every bush new springing
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Every bush new springing

by Michaell Cavendish · English

Michaell Cavendish portrait

c. 1565 - c. 5 July 1628 (~63)

If music be the food of love
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If music be the food of love

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

In Commendation of Musick
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In Commendation of Musick

by Richard Edwardes · English

Richard Edwardes portrait

c. 1525 - 31 October 1566 (~41)

Pearce did dance with Petronella
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Pearce did dance with Petronella

by Giles Farnaby · English

Giles Farnaby portrait

c. 1563 - November 1640 (~77)

Short is my rest
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Short is my rest

by William Barley · English

William Barley portrait

c. 1565 - 1614 (~49)

Will you buy a fine dog?
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Will you buy a fine dog?

by Thomas Morley · English

Thomas Morley portrait

c. 1557 - October 1602 (~45)

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