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The Shakespearian music of the 19th century was more often associated with the opera house or concert hall than with productions of the plays. In the early 20th century Elizabethan music began to be used as incidental music in a bid for more authenticity. Gradually some new scores were introduced. Vaughan Williams was engaged to write ...
The phrase "incidental music" is from the German Inzidenzmusik, which is defined in the Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre as "music that is specifically written for a play but does not form an integral part of the work". [1] The use of incidental music dates back to ancient Greek drama and possibly before the Greeks. [2]
The play opens on board a ship having as passengers a king and his courtiers. The resources of the crew are taxed to the utmost in trying to cope with a storm which, evidently arising suddenly, eventually drives the vessel on a lee shore, apparently wrecked with loss of all hands.
For narrative or evocative popular music, please see Concept Album. Any discussion of program music brings to mind Walt Disney's animated features Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000 (1999), in which the Disney animators provided graphic visualisation of several famous pieces of program music. However, not all the pieces used in the films were ...
W. S. Gilbert's Gretchen, an 1879 play based on Goethe's version of the Faust legend; Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (1918), a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz; Anatoly Lunacharsky's Фауст и город (Faust and the City) (1918) Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
1886 music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (for the Domovoi scene; a different work than either his opera or symphonic ballad of the same name) A Dream Play (Ett drömspel; August Strindberg, 1907) 1915 music by Emil von Reznicek; music by Pancho Vladigerov (an orchestral suite, Op. 13, was published in 1926) music by Wilhelm Stenhammar (died 1927)
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