Shakespeare in Opera, Ballet, Orchestral Music, and Song: An Introduction to Music Inspired by the BardEdwin Mellen Press, 1997 - 213 pàgines This work is unique in the field: the reader is introduced to music from several centuries and to five of the most popular plays in great detail (Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream). Other plays are discussed (1 & 2 Henry IV, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice). It contains no musical notation and assumes no previous knowledge of music or of Shakespeare. It can be used in the classroom by a professor of English or of music. Suggested CD and video recordings are listed and keyed by page number to examples in the book. |
Continguts
Shakespeare Without Words | 27 |
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR | 63 |
OTHELLO OTELLO | 103 |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 167 |
SHAKESPEARE SONGS | 187 |
OTHER SHAKESPEARE MUSIC | 195 |
APPENDIX | 205 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Ah ah aria audience ballet Banquo beautiful Benvolio Cajus Capulet Cassio characters chorus composer Cyprus dance death Demetrius Desdemona doth drink duet Duncan Emilia English enters exits Fairy Falstaff farewell Fenton Fleance Frau Fluth Frau Reich Friar give handkerchief hear heard heart heaven Helena Hermia honor humor Iago Iago's Italian jour kill King kiss Lady Macbeth lago leave lines lovers Lysander Macduff Malcolm marry melody Mercutio Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream Mistress Ford Mistress Quickly murder Musician Nannetta night Nurse Oberon opera orchestra Othello overture performance play plot Puck Pyramus Pyramus and Thisbe Roderigo Roméo Romeo and Juliet Roméo et Juliette Rustics Salce Scene Shakespeare sings Sir John sleep song sound speaks stage sung sweet Symphony tells thee theme Theseus Thisbe thou Titania Tybalt Vaughan Williams Verdi Verdi's vocal voice wakes willow witches Wives of Windsor women words