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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. [ 1 ] This music is distinct from musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets by later composers.
He later reworked the music for a final version, completed in 1964. [citation needed] In 1949, a three-act opera by Marcel Delannoy entitled Puck was premiered in Strasbourg. "Over Hill, Over Dale", from Act 2, is the third of the Three Shakespeare Songs set to music by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Shakespeare Songs may refer to. Music in the plays of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare Songs, songs by Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) Shakespeare Songs, songs by Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) Shakespeare-Songs, cycle of German Lieder by Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987) Shakespeare Songs (Alfred Deller album), 1967.
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
O Mistress Mine is an Elizabethan song which appears in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. It is sung by the character Feste, who is asked to sing a love song by Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch. The words of the song are addressed to the singer/poet's lover. The lyric is often assumed to be by Shakespeare, although he could have been ...
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...
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SoundtrackNet. [5] William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the 1996 film of the same name. The soundtrack contained two separate releases: the first containing popular music from the film and the second containing the score to the film composed by Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries.