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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.
This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.
This unique and comprehensive study examines how music affects Shakespeare's plays and addresses the ways in which contemporary audiences responded to it. David Lindley sets the musical scene of Early Modern England, establishing the kinds of music heard in the streets, the alehouses, private residences and the theatres of the period and outlining the period's theoretical understanding of music. Focusing throughout on the plays as theatrical performances, this work analyzes the ways Shakespeare explores and exploits the conflicting perceptions of music at the time and its dramatic and thematic potential.
"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"--
Excerpt from Shakespeare's Use of Song: With the d104 of the Principal Songs The special study, which forms the burden of these pages, was first undertaken as far back as 1908 - the direct cause was the late Mr. Lewis Waller's transfer of The Owl Song from Love's Labour's Lost to As You Like It. Unfortunately many events conspired to hinder the prosecution of the work - one became involved in military duties in the War, and since then, in common with other peace-loving residents (of whom there are a few, appearances notwithstanding) in Ireland, one has been exposed to many inconveniences. Nothing has been more heartening than the encouragement received from Mr. William Poel, and his kindly advice, to which particular value attaches by reason of his long experience as a producer of Shakespeare's plays, was always beneficial and practical. Mr. W. J. Lawrence, Mr. Percy Simpson, and Dr. E. H. Fellowes were good enough to read over my papers, and I have great pleasure in acknowledging the benefit I have received from their many helpful suggestions. In order fully to grasp the significance of the songs, it was necessary to set them to music. In this task I have had the willing collaboration of Mr. John Vine, and he has further placed me under obligation by performing them in various parts of the country. In this way he has enabled me to put some of my conclusions to the test. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.