Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of TheatresDemonstrates how Purcell, Berlioz, Verdi, and Britten, responding to Shakespeare's juxtaposition of contrasting theatrical styles, devised music dramas that call opera into question. In this book, Daniel Albright, one of today's most intrepid and vividly communicative explorers of the border territory between literature and music, offers insights into how composers of genius can help us to understand Shakespeare. Daniel Albright is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Canto appassionato assai from the love scene Berlioz Roméo et Juliette III Scène damour mm 17275 111 | 13 |
Jurez donc Berlioz Roméo et Juliette VII Serment mm 37076 113 | 14 |
Music Examples | 18 |
The Veronese Social Code | 39 |
The Code of Love | 51 |
Love against Language | 59 |
7 | 77 |
Parody Verdi Macbeth Act 1 No 5 mm 17679 | 172 |
It is necessary Verdi Macbeth Act 2 No 7 mm 99103 | 173 |
Brindisi Verdi Macbeth Act 2 No 9 mm 8085 | 174 |
Poisonous toad Verdi Macbeth Act 3 no 10 mm 7579 | 176 |
La Sonnambula | 182 |
Formication Verdi Macbeth Act 4 No 14 mm 910 | 185 |
Hand wash Verdi Macbeth Act 4 No 14 mm 5659 | 186 |
A spot Verdi Macbeth Act 4 No 14 mm 6063 | 188 |
FugueWar Berlioz Roméo et Juliette Part | 85 |
The Symphony | 86 |
Roméo in solitude Berlioz Roméo et Juliette | 91 |
diminished seventh in melodic form Berlioz | 104 |
The Opera Resumes | 107 |
Berliozs notation of his own heartbeat | 110 |
Shakespeares Random | 117 |
Prophesying | 123 |
Macbeths Children | 129 |
Two Theatres | 137 |
Come away Robert Johnson | 144 |
Demons Verdi Giovanna dArco Act 1 Finale 60 | 151 |
Pledge Verdi Ernani Act 2 Duettofinale mm 7279 | 155 |
Obsessive figure Verdi Macbeth Act 1 No 5 mm 23239 | 157 |
Prophecy to Banco Verdi Macbeth Act 1 No 2 mm 22732 | 159 |
Sortileges of Speech | 161 |
Unmoving earth Verdi Macbeth Act 1 No 4 mm 5559 | 162 |
All done Verdi Macbeth Act 1 No 5 mm 9599 | 165 |
Lady Macbeth as Witch | 167 |
Femme fatale Verdi Macbeth Act 1 No 5 mm 1058 | 168 |
Victory Verdi Macbeth Act 4 No 15 mm 29598 | 190 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 193 |
Cosmicomedy | 195 |
The Picture of Cupid | 205 |
Depictorializing Cupid | 210 |
Cupids | 214 |
The Tedious Brief Scene 176 182 | 221 |
195 | 226 |
The Aesthetic of the Masque | 233 |
Delirium in the tomb Berlioz Roméo et Juliette | 234 |
Purcells The Fairy Queen | 240 |
Songsters Purcell The Fairy Queen Act 2 No 9 mm 1315 | 243 |
Lampes Pyramus and Thisbe | 257 |
Mendelssohn and Korngold | 262 |
Brittens A Midsummer Nights Dream Notes | 285 |
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