Shakespeare's Use of Music: A Study of the Music and Its Performance in the Original Production of Seven Comedies (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Mer chant oi Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. (the Taming of the Shrew is omitted because its po sitiou in sequence is uncertain.) By the term dramatic device is meant the use of music as an aid not only to the intensification of the impact of the language, but also to the forwarding of the action, the portrayal of character, the delineation of settings, and the cre ation Of an appropriate atmosphere, such as a mood of mystery or awe. Also included in the term dramatic device is the use of music in solving problems Of stage production in instances where music covers the sound of stage machinery, denotes a lapse of time, or indicates off-stage action.

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