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Shakespeare, music and performance / edited by Bill Barclay, David Lindley.

  • Accession number

    83428708

  • Class

    65.13/SHA

  • Physical description

    xv, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

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Contents: 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: elite 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.