{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-music-9780745632964","title":"Shakespeare and Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife. The fascinating book discusses opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals, film soundtracks and hip-hop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShakespreare and Music\u003c\/i\u003e is about afterlives, in quotations, borrowings, citations, adaptations, all of it after Shakespeare’s 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bevington, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrelude 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘All That Jazz’: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Classical Shakespeares 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Shall we dance?’: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist’ 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Symphonic Film Scores 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘You know the movie song’:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Musical Terms 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscography 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilmography 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 221\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404366455127,"sku":"9780745632964","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745632964.jpg?v=1730486240","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-music-9780745632964","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}