Shakespeare’s Musical Imagery
Title | Shakespeare’s Musical Imagery PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Wilson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441125507 |
Music pervades Shakespeare's work. In addition to vocal songs and numerous instrumental cues there are thousands of references to music throughout the plays and many of the poems. This book discusses Shakespeare's musical imagery according to categories defined by occurrence in the plays and poems. In turn, these categories depend on their early modern usage and significance. Thus, instruments such as lute and viol deserve special attention just as Renaissance ideas relating to musical philosophy and pedagogical theory need contextual explanation. The objective is to locate Shakespeare's musical imagery, reference and metaphor in its immediate context in a play or poem and explain its meaning. Discussion and explanation of the musical imagery suggests a range of possible dramatic and poetic purposes these musical references serve.
Shakespeare’s Musical Imagery
Title | Shakespeare’s Musical Imagery PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Wilson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441188479 |
Music pervades Shakespeare's work. In addition to vocal songs and numerous instrumental cues there are thousands of references to music throughout the plays and many of the poems. This book discusses Shakespeare's musical imagery according to categories defined by occurrence in the plays and poems. In turn, these categories depend on their early modern usage and significance. Thus, instruments such as lute and viol deserve special attention just as Renaissance ideas relating to musical philosophy and pedagogical theory need contextual explanation. The objective is to locate Shakespeare's musical imagery, reference and metaphor in its immediate context in a play or poem and explain its meaning. Discussion and explanation of the musical imagery suggests a range of possible dramatic and poetic purposes these musical references serve.
Music in Shakespeare
Title | Music in Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Wilson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2014-02-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1472557522 |
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.
Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us
Title | Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline F. E. Spurgeon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1935 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521092586 |
An analysis of the ways in which Shakespeare's imagery functions to reveal literary and personal motives.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher R. Wilson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 1289 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0190945141 |
"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"--
Shakespeare and the American Musical
Title | Shakespeare and the American Musical PDF eBook |
Author | Irene G. Dash |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253354145 |
The Bard on Broadway
Shakespeare and Music
Title | Shakespeare and Music PDF eBook |
Author | Edward W. Naylor |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 2018-09-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3734046866 |
Reproduction of the original: Shakespeare and Music by Edward W. Naylor