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Bridge Frederick. Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas
Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. SHAKESPEARE’S KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC
Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy, Thou dreadful Ajax! that the appalled air. May pierce the head of the great combatant, And hale him hither
Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe; Blow, villain, till thy spherèd bias cheek. Outswell the colic of puff’d Aquilon: Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood! Thou blow’st for Hector
CHAPTER II. THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE SONGS. THE SINGERS
CHAPTER III. CONTEMPORARY SONGS
“It was a Lover and his Lass”
Enter two Pages. (They meet Touchstone.)
CHAPTER IV. SONGS APPEARING AT A LATER PERIOD
Cantus Primus.R. Johnson
CHAPTER V. SOME CONTEMPORARY AIRS
NEW FASHIONS
CHAPTER VI. THE MUSIC OF THE PLAYS AND THE OPERAS
CHAPTER VII. THE PLAYS (continued)
CHAPTER VIII. SHADWELL’S OPERA “THE TEMPEST”
Shadwell’s Preface to Pietro Reggio’s. Book of Songs
CHAPTER IX. PURCELL’S OPERAS
“The Fairy Queen” (Purcell)
CHAPTER X. HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY
HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY. Act III. Scene i
Whether ’t be nobler in the mind; to suffer
Thus, Conscience makes Cowards of us all;
MUSICAL APPENDIX
O MISTRESSE MINE (With Morley’s original Harmony for the Citterne and Pandora) From Morley’s Consort Lesson, 1599
GREENSLEEVES (The generally accepted Version)
GREENSLEEVES. The Version given by Cobbold in his Humorous Fancy or New Fashions (Probably about 1610.)
PEG O’ RAMSEY. Cobbold’s Version (1610?)
WHOOP! DO ME NO HARM, GOOD MAN (Song mentioned in Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale as part of the wares of Autolycus the Pedlar.)
The small notes are for the Viola da Gamba
ECHO DUET (From Shadwell’s version of The Tempest)
The Soprano part is sung off the stage. Music by J. Banister
TO BE; OR NOT TO BE; Hamlet’s Soliloquy. Act III, Scene i. Accompaniment added by Sir F. Bridge. From the original MS. in the Pepysian Library
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