CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Musical Side of the Poet- His Versatility - The Orches-

tra in the Time of Shakespeare - Drayton's Description of

English Instruments - Bacon's Summary of Music in Eliza-

bethan Days - A Comparison of Bacon and Shakespeare in

Their Musical Allusions — A Contribution to the Baconian

Controversy - Concerted Music at the End of the Sixteenth

Century.

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CHAPTER II.

Instruments Mentioned by Shakespeare

Viols The Recorders - The Bagpipe

"Consorts"

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CHAPTER III.

Instruments, continued The Virginals A Musical Error-

The Sonnets Musical Mistakes of Great Authors - Queen

Elizabeth and Her Virginal Playing — The Lute - Difficulty

of Tuning - Presents of Lute Strings - The Organ

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CHAPTER IV.

The Musical Life of England in Shakespeare's Time - The

Great Contrapuntal Epoch Famous English Composers

Status of Musicians - Shakespeare's Satirical Allusions to

Musicians Brandt's "Ship of Fooles " - Musical Servants 56

CHAPTER V.

Shakespeare's Technical Knowledge of Music "Broken

Music' - John Skelton's Diatribe. Time Keeping — Har-

mony Prized Above Mere Melody — The Eighth Sonnet

Similar Views of Browning - The Proper Wedding of Poetry

and Music—“The Passionate Pilgrim

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Wagner and Her-

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bert Spencer on the Union of the Two Arts.

CHAPTER VI.

Musical Knowledge of Shakespeare, continued · Surer in

Vocal than in Instrumental Work - Technical Vocal Terms

"Setting" a Tune - Burdens - Division, Key, and Gamut

--- Plain-song

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CHAPTER VII.

The Dances of Shakespeare Many Dances Sung-The

Dump - Other Dances - England Fond of Lively Dances

The Morris-dance- Masques - These Preceded Operas

in England

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CHAPTER VIII.

Shakespeare's Esthetic Appreciation of Music - Index to

Characters by Their Appreciation of Music - Famous Per-

sons Who Have Disliked Music Shakespeare's Jests at

Music Balanced by His Tributes to the Art - Evening Music

- The Music of the Sea - The Music of the Spheres.

CHAPTER IX.

The Bacchanalian Music of Shakespeare - Early English

Drinking-songs-Skelton's Ale-song - Tavern Life and Cus-

toms - Catches Ancient Rounds -"Three-men's Songs" 169

CHAPTER X.

Bacchanalian Music, continued — A Scottish Melody Used by

Shakespeare — Table-music in Elizabethan Days — Refrains

of Catches and Ballads — Hunt's-ups — Serenades — Morn-

ing Songs

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CHAPTER XI.

The Ballads of Shakespeare - Antiquity of English Ballads

Antique Examples - Ophelia's Ballads The Pathology of

the Mad-scene-Edgar's Music in "King Lear Mad-

songs in This Epoch Autolycus and His Ballads in

"Winter's Tale"- Plots of Shakespearian Plays as Found

in Ballads-"Greensleeves," as Cited by Shakespeare

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CHAPTER XII.

Shakespeare's Lyrics - The Lyric Poets of the Elizabethan

Epoch Ben Jonson Marlowe Parodies of Other Poets

- Doubtful Poems The Numerous Settings of Shake-

speare's Poems "Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away"

"Come Live with Me and Be My Love" - German Transla-

tions and German Musical Settings of Shakespeare - Schu-

bert's "Hark, Hark, the Lark " Purcell

CHAPTER XIII.

Children as Singers - Shakespeare's Musical Stage-directions

The "Chorus " - Musical Interludes Music after Plays –

Final Jigs - Trumpet Signals Drums - Bells

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The Musical Influence of Shakespeare - Various Kinds of

Music Inspired by Shakespeare's Plays - Influence on

Wagner Berlioz and his Shakespearian Subjects - Con-

clusion

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“LOCK UP MY DOORS: AND WHEN YOU HEAR THE

"O, Now BE GONE: MORE LIGHT AND LIGHT IT GROWS'"

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"SHALL I BID HIM GO AND SPARE NOT?'”"

"TELL ME, WHERE IS FANCY BRED "

"FOR BONNY SWEET ROBIN IS ALL My Joy'

"A PICK-AXE AND A SPADE, A SPADE' HENRY PURCELL

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