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Biografisk notat
Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham."<i>Shakespreare and Music</i> is about afterlives, in quotations, borrowings, citations, adaptations, all of it after Shakespeareâs own lifetime. It is also about reception and interpretation, re-imagining, appropriation, in Verdi of course, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and then on contemporary films, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn. This is at once a learned book, an original contribution to learning, and a story that lovers of Shakespeare and music will enjoy and profit from. It is a real success: gracefully written, elegant, intelligent, witty."<br /> <p><b>David Bevington, <i>University of Chicago</i></b></p>
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 centuries
- brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicology
- explores 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.
Acknowledgements viii
Prelude 1
1 âAll That Jazzâ: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11
2 Classical Shakespeares 29
3 âShall we dance?â: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59
4 âShakespeare with a contemporary musical twistâ 73
5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96
6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten:
Case Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112
7 Symphonic Film Scores 135
8 âYou know the movie songâ:
Contemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159
9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182
Coda 194
Glossary of Musical Terms 198
Bibliography 202
Discography 214
Filmography 219
Index 221
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 centuries
brings together in an exciting intellectual encounter ideas and methodologies deriving from literary criticism, theatre history, film studies, and musicology
explores 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.