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Genre/Form: | Compact disks Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Music |
Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ross W Duffin; Stephen Orgel |
ISBN: | 0393058891 9780393058895 |
OCLC Number: | 53971949 |
Credits: | CD credits: Ross W. Duffin, executive producer; Alan Bise, producer and digital editor; Bruce Egre, audio engineer. |
Performer(s): | On accompanying sound disc: Ellen Hargis, Judith Malafronte, Paul Elliott, William Hite, Custer LaRue and Aaron Sheehan, singers ; Paul O'Dette, lute and cittern. |
Description: | 528 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
Contents: | The songs -- Appendix I: Ground bass melodies -- Appendix 2: Shakespearean pronunciation -- Source list -- Index of titles, first lines, and refrains -- Index of names and places -- Index of citations -- CD contents. |
Responsibility: | Ross W. Duffin ; with a foreword by Stephen Orgel. |
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Abstract:
A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance.
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"A wonderfully concise and informative guide to the songs and ballads. . . . The first complete collection." -- Times Literary Supplement
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