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.
Daftar Isi
Acknowledgements viii
Prelude 1
1 ‘All That Jazz’: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11
2 Classical Shakespeares 29
3 ‘Shall we dance?’: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59
4 ‘Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist’ 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 ‘You know the movie song’:
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
Tentang Penulis
Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham.Ebook lainnya dari penulis yang sama / Editor
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