Shakespeare, Music and Performance

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Introduction David Lindley and Bill Barclay
1. Theatre bands and their music in Shakespeare's London William Lyons
2. The many performance spaces for music at Jacobean indoor playhouses Simon Smith
3. In practice I. Original practices and historical music in the Globe's London and Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III Claire van Kampen
4. Ophelia's songspace: élite female musical performance and propriety on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage Paul L. Faber
5. Jangling bells inside and outside the playhouse Katherine Hunt
6. Music, its histories, and Shakespearean (inter-)theatricality in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle Linda Phyllis Austern
7. Changing musical practices in the Shakespearean playhouse, 1620–42 Lucy Munro
8. In practice II. Adapting a Restoration adaptation: The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island Elizabeth Kenny
9. The reception and re-use of Thomas Arne's Shakespeare songs of 1740/1 John Cunningham
10. Processing with Shakespeare on the eighteenth-century London stage Michael Burden
11. The music for Henry V in Victorian productions by Kean and Calvert Val Brodie
12. In practice III. Listening to the pictures: an interview with composer Stephen Warbeck Bill Barclay
13. Film, music and Shakespeare: Walton and Shostakovich Peter Holland
14. Music in contemporary Shakespearean cinema Ramona Wray
15. The politics of popular music in contemporary Shakespearean performance Adam Hansen
16. In practice IV. 'Sounds like': making music on Shakespeare's stage today Jon Trenchard and Carol Chillington Rutter
17. Music in the 2012 Globe-to-Globe Festival Bill Barclay
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