Shakespeare's Songbook

Shakespeare's Songbook

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 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.


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Download or read book Shakespeare's Songbook written by Ross W. Duffin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Shakespeare's Songbook

Shakespeare's Songbook

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-04-17

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1324064684

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A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance. Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society Shakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150 years, scholars have aspired—without success—to fill that gap. In Shakespeare's Songbook, Ross W. Duffin does just that. Eight years in the making, Shakespeare's Songbook is a meticulously researched collection of 155 songs—ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds—that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing substantially on the unmatched resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Duffin brings complete lyrics (many newly recovered) and music notation together for the first time, and in the process sheds new light on Shakespeare's dramatic art. With performances by leading early-music singers and instrumentalists, the accompanying audio CD brings the songbook to life. Shakespeare's Songbook is the perfect gift for lovers of Shakespeare and an invaluable reference for singers, actors, directors, and scholars.


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Download or read book Shakespeare's Songbook written by Ross W. Duffin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance. Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society Shakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150 years, scholars have aspired—without success—to fill that gap. In Shakespeare's Songbook, Ross W. Duffin does just that. Eight years in the making, Shakespeare's Songbook is a meticulously researched collection of 155 songs—ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds—that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing substantially on the unmatched resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Duffin brings complete lyrics (many newly recovered) and music notation together for the first time, and in the process sheds new light on Shakespeare's dramatic art. With performances by leading early-music singers and instrumentalists, the accompanying audio CD brings the songbook to life. Shakespeare's Songbook is the perfect gift for lovers of Shakespeare and an invaluable reference for singers, actors, directors, and scholars.


Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

Author: Catherine A. Henze

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1317055993

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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.


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Download or read book Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs written by Catherine A. Henze and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Shakespeare's Musical Imagery

Shakespeare's Musical Imagery

Author: Christopher R. Wilson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1847064957

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A study of the meaning of Shakespeare's musical imagery in his plays and poems.


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Download or read book Shakespeare's Musical Imagery written by Christopher R. Wilson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the meaning of Shakespeare's musical imagery in his plays and poems.


Shakespeare's cinema of love

Shakespeare's cinema of love

Author: R. S. White

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1526107813

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This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period. Shakespeare's 'green world' has a close functional equivalent in 'tinseltown' and on 'the silver screen', as well as in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet continues to be an enduring source for romantic tragedy on screen. The nature of generic indebtedness has not gained recognition because it is elusive and not always easy to recognise. The book traces generic links between Shakespeare's comedies of love and screen genres such as romantic comedy, 'screwball' comedy and musicals, as well as clarifying the use of common conventions defining the genres, such as mistaken identity, 'errors', disguise and 'shrew-taming'. Speculative, challenging and entertaining, the book will appeal to those interested in Shakespeare, movies and the representation of love in narratives.


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Download or read book Shakespeare's cinema of love written by R. S. White and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period. Shakespeare's 'green world' has a close functional equivalent in 'tinseltown' and on 'the silver screen', as well as in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet continues to be an enduring source for romantic tragedy on screen. The nature of generic indebtedness has not gained recognition because it is elusive and not always easy to recognise. The book traces generic links between Shakespeare's comedies of love and screen genres such as romantic comedy, 'screwball' comedy and musicals, as well as clarifying the use of common conventions defining the genres, such as mistaken identity, 'errors', disguise and 'shrew-taming'. Speculative, challenging and entertaining, the book will appeal to those interested in Shakespeare, movies and the representation of love in narratives.


Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70

Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70

Author: Peter Holland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-12-07

Total Pages: 1177

ISBN-13: 1108278787

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The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the World Shakespeare Congress, held 400 years after Shakespeare's death, in July/August 2016 in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. The theme is 'Creating Shakespeare'.


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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70 written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the World Shakespeare Congress, held 400 years after Shakespeare's death, in July/August 2016 in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. The theme is 'Creating Shakespeare'.


Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare

Author: Peter Holland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-03

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521850742

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Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.


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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.


Some Other Note

Some Other Note

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 0190856629

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English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.


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Download or read book Some Other Note written by Ross W. Duffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.


Brutus and Other Heroines

Brutus and Other Heroines

Author: Harriet Walter

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848422933

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A rich journey of discovery through the greatest roles in Shakespeare, both female and male.


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Download or read book Brutus and Other Heroines written by Harriet Walter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich journey of discovery through the greatest roles in Shakespeare, both female and male.


Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots

Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots

Author: Cyril Ransome

Publisher:

Published: 1890

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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"Originally delivered as popular lectures."--Pref. Hamlet.--Julius Cæsar.--Macbeth.--King Lear.--Richard II.--Othello, the Moor of Venice.--Coriolanus.--The tempest.


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Download or read book Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots written by Cyril Ransome and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally delivered as popular lectures."--Pref. Hamlet.--Julius Cæsar.--Macbeth.--King Lear.--Richard II.--Othello, the Moor of Venice.--Coriolanus.--The tempest.