Shakespeare's musical imagery

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Music pervades Shakespeare'swork. In addition to vocal songs and numerous instrumental cues there arethousands of references to music throughout the plays and many of the poems. This book discusses Shakespeare's musical imagery according to categories definedby occurrence in the plays and poems. In turn, these categories depend on theirearly modern usage and significance. Thus, instruments such as lute and violdeserve special attention just as Renaissance ideas relating to musicalphilosophy and…

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Title Statements

Full title :Shakespeare's musical imagery / Christopher R. Wilson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 259 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781441188472, 1441188479, 9781472555397, 1472555392
oclc:ocn848918299
LC Classification:PR3034
Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

"Music to hear": the scope of Shakespeare's musical imagery -- "By the sweet power of music": consonance and harmony -- "And doleful dumps the mind oppress": passionate words -- "A delightful measure or a dance": dance music -- "Braying trumpets and loud churlish drums": the music of war -- "A rhyme is but a ballad": popular song -- "Suppose the singing birds musicians": birdsong -- "Orpheus with his lute": symbolic persons -- "Gamut I am, the ground of all accord": music theory and pedagogy -- "A thousand twangling instruments": art and country instruments -- "A swanlike end, fading in music."

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc DRAMA -- Shakespeare LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare Music Music in literature Musik Musique dans la littérature Shakespeare, William