Ross W. Duffin
Autor de How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
Sobre El Autor
Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University.
Obras de Ross W. Duffin
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 321
- Popularidad
- #73,715
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 11
- Idiomas
- 1
As a reference, this is already a staggering work, with a dense list of sources at the end that should basically allow any interested party to research the subject comprehensively. And the fact that the book comes with a CD (with a second, independently-released CD completing the set) means that this is a genuinely valuable book.
But it's not just the stuffy academic or ambitious director who will gain something from this. "Shakespeare's Songbook" serves to remind us of how lively and interactive Shakespeare's plays (and most plays of the era) were. As with a modern farce that might include a sing-a-long, or a contemporary play that makes a reference to One Direction, or a sly allusion to Gershwin or ABBA, we must remember how vital and popular Shakespeare's plays were in his time. We are doing a great disservice to his plays to ignore the roughly 200 references that exist to specific songs. By learning this, we get one step closer to reviving the utter vitality of these plays. A… (más)