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Performing Voices in the English Lute Song
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 50, Number 1, Winter 2010
- pp. 63-81
- 10.1353/sel.0.0091
- Article
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This article discusses the relationships between lyric and music through the intersection of the two in the English lute song. The article argues that musical content complicates lyric voices because musical voices allow multiple interpretations of the text to occur simultaneously without one interpretation of the text necessarily privileged over the others. This polyphony can result in an undermining or even fracturing of the lyric "I."