Shakespeare's musical imagery [electronic resource] / Christopher R. Wilson.

By: Wilson, Christopher R, 1952-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum Shakespeare studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2011Description: xi, 259 pISBN: 9781441188472 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Music | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | Music in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 822.3/3 LOC classification: PR3034 | .W54 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"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".
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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".

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