Shakespeare, Music and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781316505014 / Angielski

Bill Barclay;David Lindley

Opis

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Recenzje

'The volume is a notable achievement in opening up new ways of appreciating the 'pleasure and creative advantage' offered by music in Shakespeare's plays throughout the centuries.' Russell Jackson, Shakespeare Survey

Spis treści

Introduction David Lindley and Bill Barclay; 1. Theatre bands and their music in Shakespeare's London William Lyons; 2. The many performance spaces for music at Jacobean indoor playhouses Simon Smith; 3. In practice I. Original practices and historical music in the Globe's London and Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III Claire van Kampen; 4. Ophelia's songspace: élite female musical performance and propriety on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage Paul L. Faber; 5. Jangling bells inside and outside the playhouse Katherine Hunt; 6. Music, its histories, and Shakespearean (inter-)theatricality in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle Linda Phyllis Austern; 7. Changing musical practices in the Shakespearean playhouse, 1620–42 Lucy Munro; 8. In practice II. Adapting a Restoration adaptation: The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island Elizabeth Kenny; 9. The reception and re-use of Thomas Arne's Shakespeare songs of 1740/1 John Cunningham; 10. Processing with Shakespeare on the eighteenth-century London stage Michael Burden; 11. The music for Henry V in Victorian productions by Kean and Calvert Val Brodie; 12. In practice III. Listening to the pictures: an interview with composer Stephen Warbeck Bill Barclay; 13. Film, music and Shakespeare: Walton and Shostakovich Peter Holland; 14. Music in contemporary Shakespearean cinema Ramona Wray; 15. The politics of popular music in contemporary Shakespearean performance Adam Hansen; 16. In practice IV. 'Sounds like': making music on Shakespeare's stage today Jon Trenchard and Carol Chillington Rutter; 17. Music in the 2012 Globe-to-Globe Festival Bill Barclay; Index.