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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.
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.
In addition to performed vocal music, Shakespeare used all kinds of music and musical instruments referentially. The folk song and ballad tunes he quoted so frequently were equally well known to the groundlings as to the more distinguished patrons.
Music in Shakespeare’s Plays - Dramatic Device, Poetry, Songs: In addition to performed vocal music, Shakespeare used all kinds of music and musical instruments referentially. The folk song and ballad tunes he quoted so frequently were equally well known to the groundlings as to the more distinguished patrons.
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.
A few plays, notably Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Cymbeline, indicate specific consorts (ensembles) of instruments. More commonly, a stage direction will simply state that music is played. Small onstage bands accompanied serenade s, dances, and masque s.
The music featured below covers a broad range of Shakespeare’s songs from the plays, as written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
