Screen LibraryShakespeare's musical imagery
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Continuum,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Continuum Shakespeare studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 259 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781847064950 1847064957 |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/W747 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. "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". |