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CHAPTER I SHAKESPEARE’S KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC

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.)

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.