Shakespeare and Music - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
2. Divisions on a Ground Ba.s.s for viol-da-gamba, by Christopher Sympson, 1665, see p. 28. _Rom._ III, v, 25.
[Music]
The 'Ground' itself is in large notes, the necessary chords (which were _never_ written down) are indicated in small notes. This the Organist or Harpsichordist plays again and again, as often as necessary.
Here is a Division for the Viol, such as the player would produce _extempore_, with the above Ground before him.
Division No. 1.
[Music]
Division No. 3 (more elaborate).
[Music]
3. Example of Sol-Fa, 16th and 17th centuries, see p. 35. _Lear_ I, ii, 137.
[Music: Fa sol la fa sol la MI fa fa sol la fa sol la MI fa etc.]
The augmented fourths formed by the notes fa and mi, marked with x, are the _mi contra fa_, which _diabolus est_, or 'is the _divider_,'
see p. 36.
Solmisation of the six notes of the Hexachord, 11th century, see p.
37. _Shrew_ III, i, 72.
[Music: (Natural Hexachord) Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La
(Hard Hexachord) Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La]
The six notes from F, with B _flat_, were called the 'Soft' Hexachord.
4. Lesson for the Lute, by Thomas Mace, b. 1613, from Musick's Monument, 1676, see p. 55. _Shrew_ III, i, 58.
[Music: "My Mistress."]
_Cf._ p. 30, on 'Broken' music.
5. Tune of Light o' Love, original words not known, but date before 1570, p. 70. _Much Ado_ V, iv, 41, etc.
[Music]
6. Parson Hugh's song, 'To Shallow Rivers,' tune anonymous, date probably 16th century, p. 71. _Merry Wives_ III, i, 18.
[Music:
To shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals; There will we make our beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
When as I sat in Babylon, And a thousand vagram posies.]
7. 'Come Live with Me,' tune printed 1612, but probably much older.
See p. 71. Marlowe's 'Pa.s.sionate Pilgrim,' XX., or _Merry Wives_ III, i, 18.
[Music:
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales and fields, And all the craggy mountain yields.]
8. Peg-a-Ramsey, p. 71. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 76.
[Music: Sir Toby]
9. 'Three Merry Men be We,' p. 71. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 76. Words from Peele's 'Old Wives Tale,' 1595, where it is sung. Music from J.
Playford, 1650 _circ._, but may be older.
[Music: Sir Toby
Three merry men, and three merry men, and three merry men be we, I in the wood and thou on the ground, And Jack sleeps in the tree.]
10. 'There Dwelt a Man in Babylon,' p. 71. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 80.
Music anon., but most probably later than Shakespeare's time.
[Music: Sir Toby
_slow_
Til-ly val-ley, Lady!
_lively_
There dwelt a man in Bab-y-lon, in Bab-y-lon, in Bab-y-lon, There dwelt a man in Bab-y-lon, Lady! Lady! Lady!]
Here is one verse of the 'Ballad of Constant Susanna,' to which Toby refers.
'There dwelt a man in Babylon Of reputation great by fame; He took to wife a faire woman, Susanna she was callde by name.
A woman faire and vertuous, Lady, lady!
Why should we not of her learn thus To live G.o.dly?'
11. 'Farewell, Dear Heart,' p. 72. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 102.
[Music:
Toby
Farewell dear heart, since I must needs be gone,
Clown
His eyes do shew his days are almost done.
Toby
