Shakespeare in Music
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Shakespeare in Music
- Author
- Louis C. Elson
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Place
- Boston
- Year
- 1901
- Language
- English
- Type
- Music and literature / reception
SCOPE & CONTENT
Shakespeare in Music by Louis C. Elson is an important historical contribution to music and literature / reception. The work combines factual information with the author’s critical or pedagogical viewpoint and provides evidence about the musical priorities, repertory and intellectual debates of its period.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research, the book is most useful when its period assumptions are made explicit. It can supply primary or near-contemporary testimony, but factual and evaluative claims should be compared with modern source studies where later scholarship has revised chronology, terminology or attribution.
EDITION AND CONTENT
The curated record identifies the 1901 Boston edition used as the principal bibliographic anchor, together with publisher, language and document type. Search aliases include shortened and variant forms of both title and author so the item remains discoverable even when the physical filename is abbreviated.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research, the book is most useful when its period assumptions are made explicit. It can supply primary or near-contemporary testimony, but factual and evaluative claims should be compared with modern source studies where later scholarship has revised chronology, terminology or attribution.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields