Why not sing to Shakespeare?

I went through and skimmed almost all of my posts in our class blog, making a list as I went of different topics I blogged on and the frequency with which I was returning to the same topics. Really there were two things I returned to over and over again which were 1. time within Shakespeare's plays and 2. Shakespeare in relation to theater history/music (with more posts on the latter). So I'm currently between a couple ideas for my research paper: 1. Time is a persona within Shakespeare's works that dominates the lives of the characters (this would be an extension of our earlier paper where I focused on A Winters Tale) 2. Shakespeare the musical! Music is used so heavily within every Shakespeare work I've read, and yet the general population seems completely oblivious to it. Modern productions of Shakespeare almost never incorporate it. In fact, when I told my roommates about this idea (one of which is an English major) they both said "but Shakespeare doesn't have music Mikaela..."Why was he so concerned with music? What are we loosing in our modern productions without it? Do we now have elements of lighting/spectacle that compensates for whatever Shakespeare was trying to achieve with his music? 3. It would be interesting to look at production histories of different works in correlation to acting theory history. Different acting styles can completely affect the interpretation of a script - just like different people can read the same text and have extremely different interpretations. Well everyone - I need some help! Which idea sounds most interesting to you?