Cover; The Matter Of Song In Early Modern England: Texts In And Of The Air; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List Of Figures; Track List For Companion Recording; Abbreviations; Note On The Text; Prologue; Sounding Early Modern Song; The Drastic Nature Of Song; Song's Textual Traces; Singing Women In Early Modern England; Animating Women's Song Performance; 1: Airy Forms; A Local Habitation And A Name: Defining Song; Bodying Forth The Forms Of Things Unknown; They Show Us Why, And Teach Us How To Sing: Reading The Countess Of Pembroke's Psalmes As Song; 2: Breath Of Sirens Music In The Airquavers, And Trilloes, And The Like: Ornamenting The Breath; Singing Sirens; Plain Old Ballads: Margaret Cavendish's Civilizing Songs; 3: Voicing Lyric; The Musical Contexts Of Wroth's Folger Manuscript; The Songs Of V.a.104; Making The Room Rattle: Pamphilia In Performance; 4: Household Songs; Closet Singing; The Sound Of Print: The Cavendish Sisters, Jane Lumley, And The Duchess Of Newcastle; Pretty Sport At Penshurst: The Songs Of Mary Wroth's Love's Victory; 5: Sweet Echo; Blest Pair Of Sirens ... | ... Voice And Verse: Milton And Song; The Noise Of Song Performing Sweet Echothe Musical Lessons Of Comus; Epilogue; Works Cited; Primary Sources; Manuscript; Print; Recordings And Performances; Electronic Resources; Secondary Sources; Index Katherine R. Larson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.