ISBN: 9780745674735

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… Plus…

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 centuriesbrings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicologyexplores 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.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: plays & playwrights > Sh, Little, Brown Book Group<

2013, ISBN: 9780745674735

This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responsesto Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth centuryonwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book e… Plus…

This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responsesto Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth centuryonwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores themany genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work haveenjoyed a musical afterlife discussing opera, ballet, and classicalsymphony alongside musicals and film soundtracks, as well as folkmusic and hip-hop traditions. Taking as its starting point ideas of creativity andimprovisation stemming from early modern baroque practices and themore recent example of twentieth-century jazz adaptation, thisvolume explores the many ways in which Shakespeares plays and poemshave been re-worked by musical composers. It also places thesecultural productions in their own historical moment andcontext. Adaptation studies is a fast emerging field of scholarship andas a contribution to this field, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlivesand Borrowings: * * develops theories and practices from adaptation studies tothink about musical responses to Shakespeare across thecenturies * * brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas andmethodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history,film studies, and musicology * * explores music in its widest context, looking at classicalsymphonies including the work of Berlioz and Elgar and operas byVerdi and Britten as well as Broadway musicals, film scores byShostakovich, Walton, and contemporary performers, and the jazzadaptations of Duke Ellington and others. This is a timely study that will appeal to a wide readershipfrom lovers of Shakespeare and classical music through to studentsof film and historians of the theatre. Afterlives and Borrowings eBook PDF 19.04.2013 eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks>Sach- & Fachthemen>Kunst & Kultur, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., .201<

ISBN: 9780745674735

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… Plus…

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 centuriesbrings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicologyexplores 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.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism, Polity Press<

2013, ISBN: 9780745674735

Afterlives and Borrowings, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 1. Auflage, [PU: John Wiley & Sons], John Wiley & Sons, 2013

2013, ISBN: 9780745674735

Afterlives and Borrowings, [ED: 1], 1. Auflage, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: John Wiley & Sons]