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Shakespeare's musical imagery
Title
Shakespeare's musical imagery / Christopher R. Wilson.
ISBN
9781847064950
1847064957
Published
London ; New York : Continuum, c2011.
Physical Description
xi, 259 p. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2016
Series
Continuum Shakespeare studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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