Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings

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Polity, 23 лип. 2007 р. - 232 стор.
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 explores the many ways in which Shakespeares plays and poems have been re-worked by musical composers. It also places these cultural productions in their own historical moment and context.

Adaptation studies is a fast emerging field of scholarship and as a contribution to this field, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings:



  • develops theories and practices from adaptation studies to think about musical responses to Shakespeare across the centuries

  • brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicology

  • explores music in its widest context, looking at classical symphonies including the work of Berlioz and Elgar and operas by Verdi and Britten as well as Broadway musicals, film scores by Shostakovich, Walton, and contemporary performers, and the jazz adaptations of Duke Ellington and others.

This is a timely 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.

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Prelude
1
All That Jazz Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation
11
Classical Shakespeares
29
Shall we dance? Shakespeare at the Ballet
59
Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist
73
Shakespeare in the Opera House
96
Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten Case Studies in Shakespearean Opera
112
Symphonic Film Scores
135
Contemporary Music and Popular Culture
182
Coda
194
Glossary of Musical Terms
198
Bibliography
202
Discography
214
Filmography
219
Index
221
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You know the movie song Contemporary and Hybrid Film Scores
159

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Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham.

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