Shakespeare's musical imagery [electronic resource] /
Christopher R. Wilson.
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2011.
- xi, 259 p.
- Continuum Shakespeare studies .
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".
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781441188472 (electronic bk.)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Music. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.