Shakespeare And Music

Author : Julie Sanders
Publisher : Polity
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745632971

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Shakespeare and Music by Julie Sanders Pdf

This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife discussing opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals and film soundtracks, as well as folk music and hip-hop traditions. Taking as its starting point ideas of creativity and improvisation stemming from early modern baroque practices and the more recent example of twentieth-century jazz adaptation, this volume explores the many ways in which Shakespeares plays and poems have been re-worked by musical composers. It also places these cultural productions in their own historical moment and context. Adaptation studies is a fast emerging field of scholarship and as a contribution to this field, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings: develops theories and practices from adaptation studies to think about musical responses to Shakespeare across the centuries brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicology explores music in its widest context, looking at classical symphonies including the work of Berlioz and Elgar and operas by Verdi and Britten as well as Broadway musicals, film scores by Shostakovich, Walton, and contemporary performers, and the jazz adaptations of Duke Ellington and others. This is a timely study that will appeal to a wide readership from lovers of Shakespeare and classical music through to students of film and historians of the theatre.

Author : Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190945145

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music by Christopher R. Wilson,Mervyn Cooke Pdf

"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--

Author : Bill Barclay,David Lindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107139336

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Shakespeare, Music and Performance by Bill Barclay,David Lindley Pdf

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Author : Christopher R. Wilson,Michela Calore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847140647

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Music in Shakespeare by Christopher R. Wilson,Michela Calore Pdf

Musical references, allusions to music, and music stage directions abound in Shakespeare, ranging from simple trumpet flourishes to sophisticated, philosophical allegory. Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary identifies all musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon. An A-Z of over 300 entries includes a definition of each musical term in its historical and theoretical context, and explores the extent of Shakespeare's use of musical imagery across the full range of his dramatic and poetic work. Music in Shakespeare also analyses the usage of musical instruments and sound effects on the Shakespearean stage, providing descriptions of the instruments employed in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres. This is a comprehensive reference guide for scholars and students with interests ranging from the thematic and allegorical relevance of music in Shakespeare's works to the history of performance. It is also aimed at the growing number of directors and actors concerned with recovering the staging conditions of the early modern theatre.

Author : David Lindley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143667

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Shakespeare And Music by David Lindley Pdf

This unique and comprehensive study examines how music affects Shakespeare's plays and addresses the ways in which contemporary audiences responded to it. David Lindley sets the musical scene of Early Modern England, establishing the kinds of music heard in the streets, the alehouses, private residences and the theatres of the period and outlining the period's theoretical understanding of music. Focusing throughout on the plays as theatrical performances, this work analyzes the ways Shakespeare explores and exploits the conflicting perceptions of music at the time and its dramatic and thematic potential.

Author : Suzanne Lord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313052682

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Music from the Age of Shakespeare by Suzanne Lord Pdf

This book introduces every important aspect of the Elizabethan music world. In ten scrupulously researched yet accessible chapters, Lord examines the lives of composers, the evolution of musical instruments, the Elizabethan system of musical notation, and the many textures and traditions of Elizabethan music. Biographical entries introduce the most significant and prolific composers as well as the members of royal society who influenced Elizabethan musical culture. Both familiar and obscure instruments of the era are described with focus on their musical and social contexts. Various types of music are defined and illustrated, along with an explanation of the musical notation used during this era. Chapter bibliographies, glossaries, and an index provide additional tools for both the novice and the experienced student of music and music history. When Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1558, England was undergoing tremendous upheaval. Power struggles between Protestants and Catholics shaped the English music world as musicians' livelihoods were directly linked to their religious allegiances. Music became a form of strategy within court politics, and secular music evolved through the musical and poetic influences of the Italian Renaissance. Events of the day were told and retold through music, class and social differences were sung with relish, and rituals of love and life were set to story and song. When England defeated the vaunted Spanish Armada in 1588, a victorious nation expressed its jubilance through music.

Author : Edward W. Naylor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734046865

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Shakespeare and Music by Edward W. Naylor Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Shakespeare and Music by Edward W. Naylor

Author : F W Sternfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136569098

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Music in Shakespearean Tragedy by F W Sternfeld Pdf

First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.

Author : Irene G. Dash
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253354143

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Shakespeare and the American Musical by Irene G. Dash Pdf

The Bard on Broadway

Author : Peter J. Seng
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951001643275L

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The Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare by Peter J. Seng Pdf

Author : Adam Hansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441134257

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Shakespeare and Popular Music by Adam Hansen Pdf

Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds.

Author : Catherine A. Henze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317055983

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Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs by Catherine A. Henze Pdf

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of singing per play to 3.44 songs and 29.75 lines of singing, a virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition, many of the songs became seemingly improvisatory—similar to Armin's personal style as an author and solo comedian. In order to study Armin's collaborative impact, this interdisciplinary book investigates the songs that have Renaissance music that could have been heard on Shakespeare's stage. They occur in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and The Tempest. In fact, Shakespeare's plays, as we have them, are not complete. They are missing the music that could have accompanied the plays’ songs. Significantly, Renaissance vocal music, far beyond just providing entertainment, was believed to alter the bodies and souls of both performers and auditors to agree with its characteristics, directly inciting passions from love to melancholy. By collaborating with early modern music editor and performing artist Lawrence Lipnik, Catherine Henze is able to provide new performance editions of seventeen songs, including spoken interruptions and cuts and rearrangement of the music to accommodate the dramatist's words. Next, Henze analyzes the complete songs, words and music, according to Renaissance literary and music primary sources, and applies the new information to interpretations of characters and scenes, frequently challenging commonly held literary assessments. The book is organized according to Armin's involvement with the plays, before, during, and after the comic actor joined Shakespeare's company. It offers readers the tools to interpret not only these songs, but also vocal music in dramas by other Renaissance playwrights. Moreover, Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs, written with non-specialized terminology, provides a gateway to new areas of research and interpretation in an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field for all interested in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Author : Frederick Bridge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Music
ISBN : EAN:4064066369620

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Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas by Frederick Bridge Pdf

Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas is a scholarly treatise written by the British musician and academic Frederick Bridge. His in-depth examination of the use of music in Shakespeare's works and its influence on early operas provides a fresh perspective on the Bard's plays. This book appeals to both Shakespeare enthusiasts and music lovers, giving them unique insights into how these two art forms intertwine.

Author : Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801461405

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Broken Harmony by Joseph M. Ortiz Pdf

Music was a subject of considerable debate during the Renaissance. The notion that music could be interpreted in a meaningful way clashed regularly with evidence that music was in fact profoundly promiscuous in its application and effects. Subsequently, much writing in the period reflects a desire to ward off music’s illegibility rather than come to terms with its actual effects. In Broken Harmony Joseph M. Ortiz revises our understanding of music’s relationship to language in Renaissance England. In the process he shows the degree to which discussions of music were ideologically and politically charged. Offering a historically nuanced account of the early modern debate over music, along with close readings of several of Shakespeare’s plays (including Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and The Winter’s Tale) and Milton’s A Maske, Ortiz challenges the consensus that music’s affinity with poetry was widely accepted, or even desired, by Renaissance poets. Shakespeare more than any other early modern poet exposed the fault lines in the debate about music’s function in art, repeatedly staging disruptive scenes of music that expose an underlying struggle between textual and sensuous authorities. Such musical interventions in textual experiences highlight the significance of sound as an aesthetic and sensory experience independent of any narrative function.

Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0393058891

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Shakespeare's Songbook by Ross W. Duffin Pdf

Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.