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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 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.
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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
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.
CHAPTER VI.
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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.
The Bacchanalian Music of Shakespeare - Early English
Drinking-songs- Skelton's Ale-song Tavern Life and Cus-
toms · Catches Ancient Rounds-
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
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-Sennet
Pageants upon Stage — Historical Music
CHAPTER XIV.
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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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