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Phonograph and cylinder recordings from the early 1900s, featuring songs celebrating prejudices society is still freeing itself from. Over 180 minutes packed into 75 MP3s on 1 CD. For full title list see...
Shakespeare’s plays and poems set to music by Joseph Summer with Alan Schneider, tenor; Maria Ferrante, soprano; Elem Eley, baritone; Ja-Nae Duane, mezzo-soprano; Barbara Shepherd, French horn; Miroslav...
Lee Hirsch’s film AMANDIA! took nine years to make and tells the story of black South African freedom music, revealing the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid and how song was used...
A book collection of 160 songs - ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs and rounds - that appear in, or are alluded to in Shakespeare’s plays. Drawing heavily on the resources of the Folger...
A collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets read by actors, and songs inspired by the sonnets. The many performers include John Gielgud, Annie Lennox, Richard Attenborough, Peter Barkworth, Bryan Ferry, Kenneth...
Analyses in detail Dowland’s song ‘Can She Excuse My Wrongs’ in order to illuminate the general approach to the setting of words taken by composers of the period. There is an historical introduction to...
An anthology in words and music of Shakespeare’s writings about love. The songs by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Sullivan, Poulenc and Cecilia McDowall are performed by soprano Gillian Humphreys, with...
Set in three inland villages on the largest of the Trobriand Islands. The poetry of songs and the art of singing are a major part of the Trobriand aesthetic traditions. Through the translation of song...
R. H. Wells sings and accompanies on lute the songs of Thomas Campion, explaining their poetry, musical style and their place in the Elizabethan England.
Other songs are ‘How can the tree’ by Vaux, ‘Blame not the lute’ by Wyatt; ‘Can she excuse my wrongs?', ‘Come again sweet love doth now invite’ and ‘Flow my tears’ by Dowland; ‘It fell on...
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