DRUM ARTIST PLAYING VIOL DA GAMBA "LOCK UP MY DOORS: AND WHEN YOU HEAR THE GENTLEMAN PLAYING RECORDER 22 27 29 30 32 TITLE PAGE OF "PARTHENIA " GENTLEMAN PLAYING LUTE THE LUTE PLAYER 38 44 GUIDO OF AREZZO AND HIS PROTECTOR, BISHOP "O, Now BE GONE: MORE LIGHT AND LIGHT IT WILLIAM KEmpe. "SHALL I BID HIM GO AND SPARE NOT?'". "TELL ME, WHERE IS FANCY BRED" "A PICK-AXE AND A SPADE, A SPADE'" "UNDER THE Greenwood Tree" THE OLD MELODY OF "Heart's - EASE " A SONG TO THE LUTE IN MUSICKE THE CARMAN'S WHISTLE LIGHT O' LOVE "NOW IS THE MONTH OF MAYING " (Facsimile) AN EVENING HYMN (Facsimile) EXAMPLES FROM PLAYFORD'S "AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SKILL OF MUSICK" (Facsimile) EXAMPLE OF "DIVISION" TRIP AND Go LA ROMANESCA 112 115 123 127 EXAMPLE OF A "CATCH" (Facsimile). "WHERE THE BEE SUCKS " "FULL FATHOMS FIVE" "IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS' "ROW THE BOAT, NORMAN, Row" "WHAT SHALL HE HAVE THAT KILL'D THE Deer" "AS I WENT ON ZOL DAY" (Facsimile) "AND HOW SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE KNOW" FOR BONNY SWEET ROBIN IS ALL MY JOY". KING LEAR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS THE AGED LOVER RENOUNCETH LOVE" SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC. CHAPTER I. The Musical Side of the Poet - His Versatility—The Orchestra in the Time of Shakespeare - Drayton's Description of English Instruments - Bacon's Summary of Music in Elizabethan 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. THREE centuries ago there existed upon the earth a man with a mind so wonderful and versatile that hundreds of commentators and thousands of commentaries have not exhausted the many topics which he has presented to posterity.' It is our purpose, in this volume, to examine but one phase of that mind, - its musical side only, — yet even when confined to this single field the investigator is confronted with an amount of material and a wealth of suggestions that makes the task far larger than would at first sight be imagined. 'In the Boston Public Library there are more than 3,250 differeat works connected with this topic. |