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- Music in the plays of William Shakespeare includes both music incidental to the plot, as song and dance, and also additional supplied both by Shakespeare's own company and subsequent performers. This music is distinct from musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets by later composers.
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Shakespeare used vocal music to evoke mood, as in “Come, thou monarch,” and, while doing so, to provide ironic commentary on plot or character.
The acme of spectacle, star, and soliloquy of Shakespeare performance came with the reign of actor-manager Henry Irving and his co-star Ellen Terry in their elaborately staged productions, often with orchestral incidental music, at the Lyceum Theatre, London from 1878 to 1902.
In both cases, the songs in his plays never seem to be extraneous, though their reasons for being there can be complex. Shakespeare used vocal music to evoke mood, as in “Come, thou monarch,” and, while doing so, to provide ironic commentary on plot or character.
Playing Shakespeare's Music. Join theatre history researcher and musician Jennifer Waghorn for a talk and performance about the music in Shakespeare's plays. Find out more about the music used in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, and uncover some of the ways Shakespeare used music in his plays.
Music was used to complement the plays – a number of them include songs. There are famous songs in Much Ado About Nothing – ' Sigh no more, ladies ' – and Twelfth Night has a song in every ...
Music in the plays of William Shakespeare includes both music incidental to the plot, as song and dance, and also additional supplied both by Shakespeare's own company and subsequent performers. [1] This music is distinct from musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets by later composers.
At the same time, music was a vital part of Shakespeare’s theatrical practice. He made use of his company’s musical resources to include performed music in his plays, and his characters frequently sing and quote popular ballads and songs that would have been recognized by his audiences.
