The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music

by Wilson, Christopher R.; Cooke, Mervyn

• ISBN13: 9780190945145
• ISBN10: 0190945141
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is truly global in its scope, with ground-breaking studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed is equally extensive, embracing music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches in tackling their remits: some chapters investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed accounts of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the fascinating political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the Handbook provides a unique and impressively wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music.

Author Biography

Christopher R. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Hull. He was the UK Research Associate for the Shakespeare Music Catalogue and wrote the Shakespeare entries for Grove Opera and Grove Music. His dictionary (with Michela Calore) Music in Shakespeare, first published in 2005,
has been reissued in its third impression as one of the Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries (2014). His book Shakespeare's Musical Imagery (2011) investigates categories and thematics in musical metaphor and contextual reference throughout the plays and poems. His database of music in Shakespeare is
available at www.shakespearemusic.bham.ac.uk under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute.

Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. For six years, he was Research Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His books include Britten and the Far East (1998), four co-edited volumes of Britten's correspondence (2004?12), handbooks on
the same composer's Billy Budd and War Requiem (1993 and 1996), and two illustrated histories of jazz (1998 and 2013). He has edited and co-edited four titles in the Cambridge Companions series, devoted to Britten, twentieth-century opera, jazz, and film music. He is the author of A History of Film
Music (2008) and editor of The Hollywood Film Music Reader (2010), and his most recent monograph is Pat Metheny : The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (2017). He is also Series Editor for the online publishing platform Cambridge Elements in Music Since 1945.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Christopher R. Wilson and Mervyn Cooke


Part I: Perspectives

1. 'Where should this music be?': Cataloguing Shakespearean Music
John Cunningham

2. 'Sing Willow, &c.': Willow Songs, Cultural Memory, and the Establishment of an 'Authentic' Shakespeare Music Canon
Linda Phyllis Austern

3. 'Let the sky rain potatoes': Music, Memory, and Sonic Nationhood in Shakespeare
Florence Hazrat

4. Gender and Music in Shakespeare
Katrine K. Wong

5. Tangled Relations: Shakespeare and Ballet
Nancy Isenberg

6. Shakespeare's Musical Time Signatures
Joseph M. Ortiz

7. Shakespeare and Folk
Adam Hansen

8. 'A noise of thunder': Shakespeare and Jazz
Stuart Hampton-Reeves

9. 'In comes Romeo, he's moaning': Shakespeare, Melancholy, and the Cult of the Rock Auteur since 1960
Howard Wilde


Part II: Music in Shakespearean Theatre

10. Early Encounters with Shakespeare Music: Experiencing Playhouse Musical Performance, 1590-1613
Simon Smith

11. Soundscapes of the Outdoor Playhouses, 1567-1608
Lucy Munro

12. Thomas Morley, Robert Johnson, and Songs for the Shakespearean Stage
Ross W. Duffin

13. 'Let's have a dance': Staging Shakespeare in Restoration London
Amanda Eubanks Winkler

14. 'What's in a name?': Authorship and Shakespeare Songs in the Eighteenth Century
John Cunningham

15. Music for Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Michael V. Pisani with Mervyn Cooke

16. Shakespeare in Sweden: Wilhelm Stenhammar and Modern Theatre Music
Leah Broad

17. Music for Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon: 'Revels, dances, masques, and merry hours'
Val Brodie

18. Historically Informed Experience: Music in Globe III
Bill Barclay


Part III: Shakespeare's Global Music

19. Living with Ghosts: Beethoven, Wagner, and Shakespeare
David Roberts

20. Shakespeare in Berlioz, Berlioz in Shakespeare
Julian Rushton

21. Shekspirschina: Nineteenth-Century Russian Musical Responses to Shakespeare
Philip Bullock

22. Shakespeare and Soviet Music
Michelle Assay

23. Shakespearean Concert Songs in Victorian England
Christopher R. Wilson

24. English Shakespeare Song in UK Concerts, 1901-1951
Pam Waddington Muse

25. Musical Response to Shakespeare in Greater China: Mandopop and Cantopop
Katrine K. Wong

26. Shakespeare, Music, and South Africa: From Afrikaner Titus to Township Opera
Mervyn Cooke


Part IV: Shakespeare as Music Drama

27. Dramaturgy of the Shakespearean Libretto
Pavel Drábek

28. Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-Century Italian Operatic Stage
William Germano

29. Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siècle London
Adrian Streete

30. Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the Operatic Stage
Klára Skrobánková

31. Shakespeare and Opera in the Czech Lands
Jirí Kopecký

32. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare: Verdi's Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres
Sárka Havlícková Kysová

33. Transition and Transformation in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Katherine R. Larson and Lawrence Wiliford

34. From Hal to Henry: Wartime Masculinity in Holst's At the Board's Head
Michael Graham

35. Otherness and Strange Sounds: Operatic and Vocal Adaptations of The Tempest
Annette Simonis

36. 'If It's Good Enough For Shakespeare, It's Good Enough For Us': Shakespeare and Musical Theatre
Ben Francis


Part V: Music in Shakespearean Films

37. Sonic Spectacle in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score to Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Nina Penner

38. 'Genuine attempts at enlarging the scope of film': William Walton's and Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare Trilogy
Brian Hoyle

39. Reshaping Shakespeare: Dmitri Shostakovich's Music for Grigori Kozintsev's Film Adaptations of Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971)
Fiona Ford

40. Music in Akira Kurosawa's Filmic Adaptations of Shakespeare: Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and Ran (1985)
Timothy Koozin

41. Rhizomatic Harmonies: Music in the Shakespeare Films of Vishal Bhardwaj
Amy Rodgers

42. 'More hits than you could possibly imagine': Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet
Jan Butler

43. 'Let your indulgence set me free': Elliot Goldenthal's Music for the Shakespeare Films of Julie Taymor
Mervyn Cooke


Index of Shakespeare's Works

General Index