Shakespeare's Songbook

by Ross W. Duffin

Book Overview

Winner of the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society

Shakespeare lovers have long lamented that so few songs in his plays survive with original music; of about sixty song lyrics, only a handful have come down to us with musical settings. For over 150 years, scholars have aspired--without success--to fill that gap. In Shakespeare's Songbook, Ross W. Duffin does just that.

Eight years in the making,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393058891
• ISBN13: 9780393058895
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 3.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.7" x 10.2"