The five volumes of A Shakespeare Music Catalogue provide
scholarship with an invaluable reference tool: a comprehensive and
detailed documentation of all music - published and unpublished,
from Shakespeare's day to our own - in any way related to
Shakespeare's life and work. No single work has ever before
attempted to draw together such a mass of information, from all
countries of the world, on this neglected aspect of Shakespeare's
dramatic art and cultural influence.
The music includes operas, ballets, overtures, tone-poems, songs,
and various types of incidental music (for stage, radio, film, and
television productions). Each composition is cited with information
on its vocal and instrumental requirements, its publication
history, and, when known, its first performance. The first three
volumes deal with music and musical stage-directions for the plays
(arranged alphabetically) and settings of the sonnets and narrative
poems. The fourth volume contains indices: of Shakespeare's titles
and lines, the titles of musical works, and composers, arrangers,
editors, librettists, etc. The final volume provides a further, and
unprecedented, research tool: a selected, annotated bibliography of
writings, in all languages, on the subject of Shakespeare and
music.
For the first time, readers of the Catalogue will have ready
access to the broad range of musical works inspired by Shakespeare
and to the diversity of critical viewpoints they have provoked.
Theatrical directors will be able to consult it for appropriate
music; musicologists and cultural historians study the history of
taste; literary scholars examine any play or plays from a
thoroughly documented musical standpoint. The Catalogue brings
together the work of many scholars in the field, and goes far
beyond existing available data.
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