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Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy

Autor Ross W. Duffin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mar 2018
English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190856601
ISBN-10: 0190856602
Pagini: 762
Ilustrații: 595 line
Dimensiuni: 259 x 211 x 46 mm
Greutate: 1.8 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

An essential resource for theater practitioners, musicologists, and literary scholars, Duffin's remarkable book has revitalized the resonances of early modern music and its integral role in these comedies.
The book is indispensable for anyone interested in early modern drama, literature, and music, and especially for anyone interested in a clearer picture of the sound world of Renaissance theater.
[Duffin's] inspired detective work encompasses the identification of probable cues for music within plays, including covert allusions in stage dialogue to the names or popular refrains of well-known songs. ... Most helpfully, he sets the lyrics to the music he identifies as the most plausible original setting, and accompanies these with a discussion of how the song may have been sung.
the author brings musical life to a large repertoire of tuneless plays ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

Notă biografică

A native of Canada, Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, where he specializes in historical performance practice. Among his books are Shakespeare's Songbook (W. W. Norton, 2004), and How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) (Norton, 2007). Duffin has been described as "virtually synonymous with music and Shakespeare," and his book was lauded as "a musicological tour de force, totally without pedantry, a book which will forever change Shakespeare productions."