The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and music / edited by Christopher R. Wilson and Mervyn Cooke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Christopher R., 1952- editor.

Cooke, Mervyn, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Musical settings.

Songs.

Theater.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Musical settings--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxx, 1251 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I PERSPECTIVES

1. `Where should this music be?': Cataloguing Shakespearean Music / John Cunningham

2. `Sing Willow, &c.': Willow Songs, Cultural Memory, and the Establishment of an `Authentic' Shakespeare Music Canon / Linda Phyllis Austern

3. `Let the sky rain potatoes': Music, Memory, and Sonic Nationhood in Shakespeare / Florence Hazrat

4. Gender and Music in Shakespeare / Katrine K. Wong

5. Tangled Relations: Shakespeare and Ballet / Nancy Isenberg

6. Shakespeare's Musical Time Signatures / Joseph M. Ortiz

7. Shakespeare and Folk / Adam Hansen

8. `A noise of thunder': Shakespeare and Jazz / Stuart Hampton-Reeves

9. `In comes Romeo, he's moaning': Shakespeare, Melancholy, and the Cult of the Rock Auteur since 1960 / Howard Wilde

pt. II MUSIC IN SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE

10. Early Encounters with Shakespeare Music: Experiencing Playhouse Musical Performance, 1590

1613 / Simon Smith

11. Soundscapes of the Outdoor Playhouses, 1567

1608 / Lucy Munro

12. Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and Songs for the Shakespearean Stage / Ross W. Duffin

13. `Let's have a dance': Staging Shakespeare in Restoration London / Amanda Eubanks Winkler

14. `What's in a name?': Authorship and Shakespeare Songs in the Eighteenth Century / John Cunningham

15. Music for Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre / Mervyn Cooke

16. Shakespeare in Sweden: Wilhelm Stenhammar and Modern Theatre Music / Leah Broad

17. Music for Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon: `Revels, dances, masques, and merry hours' / Val Brodie

18. Historically Informed Experience: Music in Globe III / Bill Barclay

pt. III SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBAL MUSIC

19. Living with Ghosts: Beethoven, Wagner, and Shakespeare / David Roberts

20. Shakespeare in Berlioz, Berlioz in Shakespeare / Julian Rushton

21. Shekspirshchina: Nineteenth-Century Russian Musical Responses to Shakespeare / Philip Ross Bullock

22. Shakespeare and Soviet Music / Michelle Assay

23. Shakespearean Concert Songs in Victorian England / Christopher R. Wilson

24. English Shakespeare Song in British Concerts, 1901-1951 / Pam Waddington Muse

25. Musical Response to Shakespeare in Greater China: Mandopop and Cantopop / Katrine K. Wong

26. Shakespeare, Music, and South Africa: From Afrikaner Titus to Township Opera / Mervyn Cooke

pt. IV SHAKESPEARE AS MUSIC DRAMA

27. Dramaturgy of the Shakespearean Libretto / Pavel Drabek

28. Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century Italian Operatic Stage / William Germano

29. Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siecle London / Adrian Streete

30. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the Operatic Stage / Klara Skrobankova

31. Shakespeare and Opera in the Czech Lands / Jiri Kopecky

32. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare: Verdi's Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres / Sarka Havlickova Kysova

33. Translation and Transformation in Britten's A Midsummer Nights Dream / Lawrence Wiliford

34. From Hal to Henry: Wartime Masculinity in Holst's At the Boar's Head / Michael Graham

35. Otherness and Strange Sounds: Operatic and Vocal Adaptations of The Tempest in the Twentieth Century and Beyond / Annette Simonis

36. `If it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for us': Shakespeare and the Broadway Musical / Ben Francis

pt. V MUSIC IN SHAKESPEAREAN FILMS

37. Sonic Spectacle in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score to Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) / Nina Penner

38. `Genuine attempts at enlarging the scope of film': William Walton's and Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare Trilogy / Brian Hoyle

39. Reshaping Shakespeare: Dmitri Shostakovich's Music for Grigori Kozintsev's Film Adaptations of Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971) / Fiona Ford

40. Music in Akira Kurosawa's Filmic Adaptations of Shakespeare: Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and Ran (1985) / Timothy Koozin

41. Rhizomatic Harmonies: Music in the Shakespeare Films of Vishal Bhardwaj / Amy Rodgers

42. `More hits than you can possibly imagine': The Music of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Jan Butler

43. `Let your indulgence set me free': Elliot Goldenthal's Music for the Shakespeare Films of Julie Taymor / Mervyn Cooke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780190945145

0190945141

OCLC:

1256590509

Publisher Number:

99993021279