Shakespeare's Songbook is a two-CD set issued as a companion piece to a book by the same title, published by W.W. Norton in 2004. That book is an exhaustively researched survey of 160 songs that are woven into or even mentioned in Shakespeare's plays -- an admirable enterprise, since for four centuries, thespians have basically been winging it when they came up with tunes. Author Ross W. Duffin makes clear that the same thing happened in Shakespeare's own time; songs weren't notated because performers would simply fit them ...
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Shakespeare's Songbook is a two-CD set issued as a companion piece to a book by the same title, published by W.W. Norton in 2004. That book is an exhaustively researched survey of 160 songs that are woven into or even mentioned in Shakespeare's plays -- an admirable enterprise, since for four centuries, thespians have basically been winging it when they came up with tunes. Author Ross W. Duffin makes clear that the same thing happened in Shakespeare's own time; songs weren't notated because performers would simply fit them to a metrically appropriate tune that everyone would have been familiar with. In other cases, however, relevant material has survived and was unearthed through a painstaking search of collections such as the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The CD is meant to illustrate the examples discussed in the book itself, not to be an independent release. Most of the outlets selling Shakespeare's Songbook on the web have been upfront about this, but if you hit one that hasn't, be...
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Add this copy of Shakespeare's Songbook, Volumes I & II: the Complete to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by HPB Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Azica.
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