Music for Macbeth / edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Eubanks Winkler, Amanda, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 133.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; 133

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incidental music--Scores.

Incidental music.

Genre:

Incidental music.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xx, 104 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.

Summary:

"Within a few years of the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, impresario and playwright William Davenant revised William Shakespeare's Macbeth to suit the tastes of his music-hungry audience, adding lavish singing and dancing scenes for the witches. This critical edition brings together the few remaining pieces from a setting of Macbeth dating from the mid-1660s, possibly by Matthew Locke, as well as a late-seventeenth-century setting by John Eccles, and an early-eighteenth-century one by Richard Leveridge. The last proved immensely popular and audiences into the nineteenth century were enchanted by the dramatically effective music for the singing and dancing witches. This volume will appeal to modern theater companies hoping to recapture the witches' magic, as well as to historians of English music and drama." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Tunes for Macbeth. Let's have a dance ; The witches dance / attributed to Matthew Locke

Music for Macbeth. Act (2) symphony ; Speak, sister, speak ; Let's have a dance ; Hecate! Oh, come away ; Act 4 symphony ; Black spirits and white / by John Eccles

Music for Macbeth. (Act 2) symphony ; Speak, sister, speak ; Let's have a dance ; Act (2) tune ; Symphony at the descending of the machine in the third act ; Hecate! Come away ; (Act 4) symphony ; Black spirits and white / by Richard Leveridge.

Notes:

Incidental music for Shakespeare's play; unaccompanied melodies (1st-2nd works); for solo voices, chorus, strings, and continuo (3rd-4th works).

Set of 11 parts (print format only) available from publisher as rental parts.

Text comparison between Eccles' and Leveridge's settings: pages xiii-xix.

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed June 19, 2019).

Contains:

Musical setting of: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.

Container of: Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 1622-1677. Dance in the play of Mackbeth.

Container of: Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 1622-1677. Witches dance.

Container of: Eccles, John, d. 1735. Macbeth.

Container of: Leveridge, Richard, 1670 or 71-1758. Macbeth.

OCLC:

1105622822

Publisher Number:

B133 A-R Editions, Inc.