Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the Plays of Shakespeare, with an Attempt at Their Explanation and Derivation, Together with Much of the Original MusicL.C. Page, 1901 - 344 pages |
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... motion , doth by custom of often affecting the spirits and putting them in one kind of posture , alter not a little the nature of the spirits , even when the object is removed . And , therefore , we 16 SHAKESPeare in MUSIC .
... motion , doth by custom of often affecting the spirits and putting them in one kind of posture , alter not a little the nature of the spirits , even when the object is removed . And , therefore , we 16 SHAKESPeare in MUSIC .
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... kind could not have suffered such lyrics to be handed down as the sole authentic examples of his poetic ability . It will not be amiss to reprint here said translation of the 1st Psalm : " Who never gave to wicked reed A yielding and ...
... kind could not have suffered such lyrics to be handed down as the sole authentic examples of his poetic ability . It will not be amiss to reprint here said translation of the 1st Psalm : " Who never gave to wicked reed A yielding and ...
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... kind , with the usual six holes , and a big hole near the stopped end , where the breath was applied . The instrument was therefore held across ( traverso ) the face of the player , whose head would be turned sideways , and hence comes ...
... kind , with the usual six holes , and a big hole near the stopped end , where the breath was applied . The instrument was therefore held across ( traverso ) the face of the player , whose head would be turned sideways , and hence comes ...
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... kind of punishment her Majesty should be pleased to inflict upon me for so great offence . Then she sate down low upon a cushion , and I upon my knees by her ; but with her own hand she gave me a cushion to lay under my knee ; which at ...
... kind of punishment her Majesty should be pleased to inflict upon me for so great offence . Then she sate down low upon a cushion , and I upon my knees by her ; but with her own hand she gave me a cushion to lay under my knee ; which at ...
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... kind ; here , however , an instrument is evi- dently meant . Rumour speaks : " Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises , jealousies , conjectures ; And of so easy and so plain a stop , That the blunt monster with uncounted heads , The still ...
... kind ; here , however , an instrument is evi- dently meant . Rumour speaks : " Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises , jealousies , conjectures ; And of so easy and so plain a stop , That the blunt monster with uncounted heads , The still ...
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allusions Autolycus Backe and syde bagpipe ballad Caliban called catch century chapter Clown composer cresc dance daughter delight descant ding a ding Ding-dong doth Duke dump Elizabethan England epoch example fool Freemen's songs Gernutus give greene willow Hamlet Hark harmony hath hear heart Henry Henry Purcell Hortensio instrument Jaques Julia King Lear lady live lord Love's Labour's Lost lover Lucentio Lucetta lute maid Malvolio masque means melody Merchant of Venice merry Michael Drayton mirth morris-dance musician never opera Ophelia pipe play poem poet probably Purcell Queen quoted quoth refrain Richard Grant White Romeo and Juliet scene Shake Shakespeare Shakespearian sing singer Sir Andrew Sir Toby sonnes sound speaks Steevens Stephano strings sung sweet syde go tavern Tempest thee thou trumpets tune Twelfth Night viols vocal voice willow words
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Page 191 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 157 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 327 - The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Page 152 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Page 92 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 160 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 183 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 86 - The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind, as she is fair, For beauty lives with kindness f Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being helpd, inhabits there.
Page 39 - How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand To be so tickled, they would change their state And situation with those dancing chips, O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait, Making dead...
Page 227 - Phoebus gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet arise ; Arise, arise ! Clo.