Music in Shakespearean tragedy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of musicPublication details: London, Routledge and K. Paul; New York, Dover Publications [1963]Description: xxii, 334 p. illus., ports., facsims., music. 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.83
LOC classification:
  • ML80.S5 S8
Contents:
Tradition of vocal and instrumental music in tragedy -- The willow song -- Ophelia's songs -- Magic songs -- Adult songs and Robert Armin -- Adult songs from Hamlet to Othello -- Blank verse, prose, and songs in King Lear -- Instrumental music, part one : Tamburlaine, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida -- Instrumental music, part two : stringed versus wind instruments -- Retrospect of scholarship on Shakespeare and music.
Holdings
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library Music Pocket Library Books & Scores ML80.S5S8 1 Available 33710000512074

Includes settings of melodies with and without realizations of figured bass in appendices of chapters.

"Bibliography of sources printed after 1700": p. 274-299. Bibliographies of printed and ms. sources of the music included in appendices of chapters.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Tradition of vocal and instrumental music in tragedy -- The willow song -- Ophelia's songs -- Magic songs -- Adult songs and Robert Armin -- Adult songs from Hamlet to Othello -- Blank verse, prose, and songs in King Lear -- Instrumental music, part one : Tamburlaine, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida -- Instrumental music, part two : stringed versus wind instruments -- Retrospect of scholarship on Shakespeare and music.