The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and music / edited by Christopher R. Wilson and Mervyn Cooke.
| Other author | Wilson, Christopher R., 1952- |
| Other author | Cooke, Mervyn. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xxx, 1251 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Music |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford handbooks |
| Contents | Introduction: Music, Shakespeare and the Shakespearean / Christopher R. Wilson and Marvyn Cooke -- Part I, Perspectives. "Where should this music be?" : cataloguing Shakespearean music / John Conningham. "Sing willow &c" : willow songs, cultural memory, and the establishment of an "authentic" Shakespeare music canon / Linda Phyllis Austern. "Let the sky rain potatoes" : music memory and sonic nationhood in Shakespeare / Florence Harzat. Gender and music in Shakespeare / Katrine K. Wong. Tangled relations : Shakespeare and ballet / Nancy Isenberg. Shakespeare's musical time signatures / Joseph M. Ortiz. Shakespeare and folk / Adam Hansen. "A noise of thunder" : Shakespeare and jazz / Stuart Hanpton Reeves. "In comes Romeo, he's moaning" : Shakespeare, melancholy, and the cult of the rock auteur since 1960 / Howard Wilde -- Part II, Music in Shakespearean theatre. Early encounters with Shakespeare music : experiencing playhouse musical performance, 1590-1613 / Simon Smith. Soundscapes of the outdoor playhouses, 1567-1608 / Lucy Munro. Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and songs for the Shakespearean stage / Ross W. Duffin. "Let's have a dance" : staging Shakespeare in Restoration London / Amanda Eubanks Winkler. "What's in a name?" : authorship and Shakespeare songs in the eighteenth century / John Cunningham. Music for Shakespeare in nineteenth-century American theatre / Michael V. Pisani with Mervyn Cooke. Shakespeare in Sweden : Wilhelm Stenhammar and modern theatre music / Leah Broad. Music for Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon : "Reels, dances, masques, and merry hours" / Val Brodie. Historically informed experience : music in Globe III / Bill Barclay -- Part III, Shakespeare's global music. Living with ghosts : Beethoven, Wagner, and Shakespeare / David Roberts. Shakespeare in Berlioz, Berlioz in Shakespeare / Julian Rushton. Shekspirshchina : nineteenth-century Russian musical responses to Shakespeare / Philip Ross Bullock. Shakespeare and Soviet music / Michelle Assay. Shakespearean concert songs in Victorian England / Chirstopher R. Wilson. English Shakespeare songs in British concerts, 1901-1951 / Pam Waddington Muse. Musical response to Shakespeare in greater China : Mandopop and Cantopop / Katrine K. Wong. Shakespeare, music, and South Africa : from Afrikaner Titus to township opera / Mervyn Cooke -- Part IV, Shakespeare as music drama. Dramaturgy of the Shakespearean libretto / Pavel Drábek. Shakespeare and the nineteenth-century Italian operatic stage / William Germano. Performing Verdi's Otello in fin-de-siècle London / Adrian Streete. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia : The comedy of errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the operatic stage / Kárla Škrobánková. Shakespeare and opera in the Czech lands / Jiří Kopecký. Audio-visual metaphors in operatic Shakespeare : Verdi's Macbeth and Otello in Czech theatres / Šárka Havlíčková Kysová. Translation and transformation in Britten's A midsummer night's dream / Katherine R. Larson and Lawrence Wiliford. From Hal to Henry : wartime masculinity in Holst's At the Boear's Head / Michael Graham. Otherness and strange sounds : operatic and vocal adaptations of The tempest in the twentieth century and beyond / Annette Simonis. "If it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for us" : Shakespeare and the Broadway musical / Ben Francis -- Part V, Music in Shakespearean films. Sonic spectacle in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score to Max Reinhardt's A midsummer night's dream (1935) / Nina Penner. "Genuine attempts at enlarging the scope of film" : William Walton's and Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare trilogy / Brian Hoyle. Reshaping Shakespeare : Dmitri Shostakovich's music for Grigori Kozintsev's film adaptations of Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971) / Fiona Ford. Music in Akira Kurosawa's filmic adaptations of Shakespeare : Throne of blood (1957), The bad sleep well (1960), and Ran (1985) / Timothy Koozin. Rhizomatic harmonies : music in the Shakespearea films of Vishal Bhardwaj / Amy Rodgers. "More hits than you can possibly imagine" : the music of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Jan Butler. "Let your indulgence set me free" : Elliot Goldenthal's music for the Shakespeare films of Julie Taymor / Mervyn Cooke. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021027791 2021039930 |
| ISBN | 9780190945145 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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