[PDF] Shakespeare And Music eBook

Author : Christopher R. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0190945141

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"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 : Julie Sanders
Publisher : Polity
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0745632971

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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 : Bill Barclay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107139333

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

Author : Christopher R. Wilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472557522

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With an A-Z of over 300 entries, Music in Shakespeare is the most comprehensive study of all the musical terms found in Shakespeare's complete works. It includes a definition of each musical term in its historical and theoretical context, and explores the diverse extent of musical imagery across the full range of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic work, as well as analysing the usage of instruments and sound effects on the Shakespearean stage. This is a comprehensive reference guide for scholars and students with interests in the thematic and allegorical relevance of music in Shakespeare, and the history of performance. Identifying all musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon, it will also be of use to 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 : 297 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1408143666

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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 : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780393058895

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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.

Author : Irene G. Dash
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253354145

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The Bard on Broadway

Author : Bill Barclay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108210821

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Music has been an essential constituent of Shakespeare's plays from the sixteenth century to the present day, yet its significance has often been overlooked or underplayed in the history of Shakespearean performance. Providing a long chronological sweep, this collection of essays traces the different uses of music in the theatre and in film from the days of the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions. With a unique concentration on the performance aspects of the subject, the volume offers a wide range of voices, from scholars to contemporary practitioners (including an interview with the critically acclaimed composer Stephen Warbeck), and thus provides a rich exploration of this fascinating history from diverse perspectives.

Author : Adam Hansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441134255

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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.