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.

CHAPTER II.

Instruments Mentioned by Shakespeare

-Viols-The Recorders - The Bagpipe

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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 . 37

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❞— Wagner and Her-

bert Spencer on the Union of the Two Arts.

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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.

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CHAPTER X.

Bacchanalian Music, continued A Scottish Melody Used by
Shakespeare-Table-music in Elizabethan Days - Refrains

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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

of Catches and Ballads

ing Songs

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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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Hunt's-ups - Serenades - Morn-

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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

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CHAPTER XIII.

Children as Singers - Shakespeare's Musical Stage-directions

The "Chorus"- Musical Interludes - Music after Plays -

Final Jigs - Trumpet Signals - Drums - Bells - Sennet

Pageants upon Stage-Historical Music

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The Musical Influence of Shakespeare- Various Kinds of

Music Inspired by Shakespeare's Plays - Influence

Wagner-Berlioz and his Shakespearian Subjects - Con-

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