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Shakespearean music in the plays and early operas / by Sir Frederick Bridge.

Author/creator Bridge, Frederick, 1844-1924
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon, Toronto : J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York : E. P. Dutton & co., 1923.
Descriptionxiii, 93 pages : illustrations (music) ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Shakespeare's knowledge of music -- The accompaniment of the songs : the singers -- Contemporary songs -- Songs appearing at a later period -- Some contemporary airs -- The music of the plays and operas -- The plays (continued) -- Shadwell's opera "The tempest" -- Purcell's operas -- Hamlet's soliloquy -- Musical appendix. -- O mistresse mine -- Greensleeves -- Peg o' Ramsey -- Whoop! Do me no harm -- Echo duet : Go thy way -- Hamlet's sololoquy.
Abstract Nearly all of Shakespeare's plays provide for music both instrumental and vocal. This scholarly work attempts to reconstruct that music so as to make us more aware of the use of music as a dramatic device by Shakespeare and other dramatists of that era. This 1923 publication was the first study to concentrate on identifying the correct versions of all the music, instrumental and vocal, and to discuss and illustrate the earliest known versions of the music and scores related to the plays and the musical instruments used to play them. This title is cited and recommended by A Shakespeare Bibliography - Ebisch. Sir Frederick Bridge (1844-1924) was a composer and conductor, Professor of Harmony at Owens College, Manchester; and deputy organist at Westminster Abbey.
General note"Musical appendix": pages 77-93.
LCCN 24009898

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML80.S5 B8 1923 ✔ Available Place Hold