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This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
List of contents
Introduction David Lindley and Bill Barclay; 1. Theatre bands and their music in Shakespeare's London William Lyons; 2. The many performance spaces for music at Jacobean indoor playhouses Simon Smith; 3. In practice I. Original practices and historical music in the Globe's London and Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III Claire van Kampen; 4. Ophelia's songspace: élite female musical performance and propriety on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage Paul L. Faber; 5. Jangling bells inside and outside the playhouse Katherine Hunt; 6. Music, its histories, and Shakespearean (inter-)theatricality in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle Linda Phyllis Austern; 7. Changing musical practices in the Shakespearean playhouse, 1620-42 Lucy Munro; 8. In practice II. Adapting a Restoration adaptation: The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island Elizabeth Kenny; 9. The reception and re-use of Thomas Arne's Shakespeare songs of 1740/1 John Cunningham; 10. Processing with Shakespeare on the eighteenth-century London stage Michael Burden; 11. The music for Henry V in Victorian productions by Kean and Calvert Val Brodie; 12. In practice III. Listening to the pictures: an interview with composer Stephen Warbeck Bill Barclay; 13. Film, music and Shakespeare: Walton and Shostakovich Peter Holland; 14. Music in contemporary Shakespearean cinema Ramona Wray; 15. The politics of popular music in contemporary Shakespearean performance Adam Hansen; 16. In practice IV. 'Sounds like': making music on Shakespeare's stage today Jon Trenchard and Carol Chillington Rutter; 17. Music in the 2012 Globe-to-Globe Festival Bill Barclay; Index.
About the author
Bill Barclay is the Director of Music at Shakespeare's Globe. His original scores for the Globe include Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet Globe-to-Globe, which toured 197 countries from 2014–16. He has directed or adapted concerts for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the British Film Institute, and the Tanglewood Music Center, and has lectured on Shakespeare and the Music of the Spheres on three continents. He is editor of The Plays of Jon Lipsky (with Jonah Lipsky, 2015).David Lindley is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Leeds, where he taught in the School of English. He has published books and articles on court masques, on the scandalous history of Frances Howard, and on Thomas Campion. He edited eleven Jonson masques for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (2012). His study Shakespeare and Music appeared in 2006, and his substantially revised second edition of The Tempest for The New Cambridge Shakespeare was published in 2013.
