The Handbook of Shakespeare Music: Being an Account of Three Hundred and Fifty Pieces of Music Set to Words Taken from the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, the Compositions Ranging from the Elizabethan Age to the Present Time |
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... Linley . - Whenever this gentleman's name is mentioned , it is in reference to his happily conceived work , entitled " The Dramatic Songs of Shakespeare . " 5. Mr. John Christopher Smith . - Mr . Smith was the friend of Handel , and is ...
... Linley . - Whenever this gentleman's name is mentioned , it is in reference to his happily conceived work , entitled " The Dramatic Songs of Shakespeare . " 5. Mr. John Christopher Smith . - Mr . Smith was the friend of Handel , and is ...
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... Linley observes that- " It is probable that there was an original setting of the Clown's song in this play , as the words would lose much of their point without the aid of music . " However this may be , I have not , any more than Mr.
... Linley observes that- " It is probable that there was an original setting of the Clown's song in this play , as the words would lose much of their point without the aid of music . " However this may be , I have not , any more than Mr.
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... Linley suggests that it might have been Something in the tripping style that the author has ventured to express them in . " N.B. - Immediately before the above quoted dialogue we find these lines for the Clown : : - " For I the ballad ...
... Linley suggests that it might have been Something in the tripping style that the author has ventured to express them in . " N.B. - Immediately before the above quoted dialogue we find these lines for the Clown : : - " For I the ballad ...
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... Linley alludes , as having a " faint recollection " of seeing it , I am not able to furnish even the presumptive ... Linley's time , of which fact he apparently could not have been aware . One of these settings was the composition of Mr ...
... Linley alludes , as having a " faint recollection " of seeing it , I am not able to furnish even the presumptive ... Linley's time , of which fact he apparently could not have been aware . One of these settings was the composition of Mr ...
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... Linley allude , are as following : - " All take hands . Make battery to our ears with the loud music ; The while , I'll place you . Then the boy shall sing . The holding every man shall bear as loud As his strong sides can volley ...
... Linley allude , are as following : - " All take hands . Make battery to our ears with the loud music ; The while , I'll place you . Then the boy shall sing . The holding every man shall bear as loud As his strong sides can volley ...
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accompaniment Act and Scene allegro Amiens andante ARIEL Arne Arne's Arthur Sullivan AUTOLYCUS baritone bee sucks burthen CALIBAN canzonet Caulfield's Collection chorus CLOWN Comedy of Errors commencing compass composed by Sir composition contralto cuckoo Cymbeline ding DUKE Enter fairy favourite fool four lines four male voices Full fathom five Gentlemen of Verona glee for four glee form GUIDERIUS Hamlet's letter Hark heigh Hymen JAQUES John Stafford Smith Juliet lady lark Linley Linley's melody Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream movement Oberon Olivia omitted original pianoforte piece of music play poem poetry PROSPERO PUCK R. J. Stevens reproduced Robert Johnson Romeo Samuel Webbe Shakespeare Shakespeare Album sing him home Sir Henry Bishop Sir John Stevenson solo form solo setting song sonnet soprano speech style sung by Miss sweet tenor voice thee thou monarch three voices Tree Twelfth Night VIOLA William Linley Wilson Wives of Windsor words written
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Page 29 - Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art : Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or, hearing, die.
Page 56 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 38 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 76 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 98 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 9 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! &c.
Page 55 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 115 - Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow, Are of those that April wears. But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee.
Page 56 - And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 15 - This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In spring time, &C.