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Shakespeare and music : afterlives and borrowings / Julie Sanders.
- Title
- Shakespeare and music : afterlives and borrowings / Julie Sanders.
- Author
- Sanders, Julie, 1968-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden MA : Polity, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 232 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife, discussing opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals and film soundtracks, as well as folk music and hip-hop traditions." "Taking as its starting point ideas of creativity and improvisation stemming from early modern baroque practices and the more recent example of twentieth-century jazz adaptation, this volume analyses the many ways in which Shakespeare's plays and poems have been re-worked by musical composers. It also places these cultural productions in their own historical moment and context." "This is a detailed study that will appeal to a wide readership from lovers of Shakespeare and classical music through to students of film and historians of the theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-213), discography (p. 214-218), filmography (p. [219]-220), and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 'All That Jazz': Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11 -- 2 Classical Shakespeares 29 -- 3 'Shall we dance?': Shakespeare at the Ballet 59 -- 4 'Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist' 73 -- 5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96 -- 6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten: Case Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112 -- 7 Symphonic Film Scores 135 -- 8 'You know the movie song': Contemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159 -- 9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182.
- ISBN
- 9780745632964
- 0745632963
- 9780745632971 (pbk.)
- 0745632971 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007299668
- OCLC
- 144571464
- SCSB-11680483
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library