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Shakespeare's Songbook
Contributor(s): Duffin, Ross W. (Author)
ISBN: 0393058891     ISBN-13: 9780393058895
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $44.96  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2004
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Annotation: Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Shakespeare
Dewey: 782.420
LCCN: 2003070217
Physical Information: 1.34" H x 8.74" W x 10.2" (2.86 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society

Shakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150 years, scholars have aspired--without success--to fill that gap. In Shakespeare's Songbook, Ross W. Duffin does just that.

Eight years in the making, Shakespeare's Songbook is a meticulously researched collection of 155 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing substantially on the unmatched resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Duffin brings complete lyrics (many newly recovered) and music notation together for the first time, and in the process sheds new light on Shakespeare's dramatic art. With performances by leading early-music singers and instrumentalists, the accompanying audio CD brings the songbook to life. Shakespeare's Songbook is the perfect gift for lovers of Shakespeare and an invaluable reference for singers, actors, directors, and scholars.

Contributor Bio(s): Duffin, Ross W.: - Ross W. Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of the award-winning Shakespeare's Songbook. He lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.