Restoration Theatre Song Archive

The dataset is an encoding as a TEI Corpus of the resource available as web pages and descibed there:This archive, containing a close
to complete record of the words of songs performed on the London
stage between 1600 and 1702/3 and a substantial proportion of the
surviving music, was prepared by Anthony Butler under an Australian
Research Council grant awarded to Harold Love. We are grateful to
the ARC and Monash University for their generous support of this
project. Valued assistance and support was also given by Tracey Caulfield,
Peter Groves, Felicity Henderson, Carlin Payne, Chris Worth and Philip
Wheatland. The primary aim of the project was
to assemble material for a projected study by Harold Love of the
Restoration theatre song as a performed work, to be conducted through
a combination of stage-historical, musicological and dramaturgical
understandings. As such it is to be regarded as a working tool, not
a finished and complete record of its subject matter. It is offered
in its present form for scholars, musicians, and theatre performers
for whom it may have either this or other uses.