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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... voices remain practi- cally the same in all ages , the instruments of music undergo changes that cause the music of one epoch to be very dissimilar from that of another . Such a combination of instruments as a modern would call an ...
... voices remain practi- cally the same in all ages , the instruments of music undergo changes that cause the music of one epoch to be very dissimilar from that of another . Such a combination of instruments as a modern would call an ...
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... voice , To shew that England could varietie afforde . Some that delight to touch the sterner wyerie chord , The Cithron , the Pandore , and the Theorbo strike ; The Gittern and the Kit the wandering fidlers like . So there were some ...
... voice , To shew that England could varietie afforde . Some that delight to touch the sterner wyerie chord , The Cithron , the Pandore , and the Theorbo strike ; The Gittern and the Kit the wandering fidlers like . So there were some ...
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... voice of one that readeth , etc .; the cause whereof is for that tones , because they are equal and slide not , do more strike and erect the sense than the other . And overmuch attention hindereth sleep . " Yet Shakespeare causes the ...
... voice of one that readeth , etc .; the cause whereof is for that tones , because they are equal and slide not , do more strike and erect the sense than the other . And overmuch attention hindereth sleep . " Yet Shakespeare causes the ...
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... voice and pipes alone , agree not so well . But for the melioration of music there is yet much left ( in this point of exquisite consorts ) to try and inquire . ” ' Of " broken music " and " consorts 99 we shall speak later on . We have ...
... voice and pipes alone , agree not so well . But for the melioration of music there is yet much left ( in this point of exquisite consorts ) to try and inquire . ” ' Of " broken music " and " consorts 99 we shall speak later on . We have ...
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... Dancing , ( For that is a Meane and Vulgar Thing ; ) And the Voices of the Dialogue would be Strong and Manly ( A Base and a Tenour ; No Treble ; ) And FRANCIS BACON . the Ditty , High and Tragicall ; 22 SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC .
... Dancing , ( For that is a Meane and Vulgar Thing ; ) And the Voices of the Dialogue would be Strong and Manly ( A Base and a Tenour ; No Treble ; ) And FRANCIS BACON . the Ditty , High and Tragicall ; 22 SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC .
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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.