Music for Shakespeare's theatre
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Music for Shakespeare's theatre
Gerald place (tenor) Rebecca Hickey (soprano) Dorothy Linell (lute)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 10 May 2008
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Music played an important role in the Renaissance theatre and Shakespeare brought new subtlety to its use. In a theatre without lights and sets, it fell to music to underline mood, whether for magic, comedy, feasting or pathos. Here are thirty or so settings from Shakespeare's lifetime by Morley, Johnson, Dowland, Byrd, Ferrabosco and others, including lyrics set to ballad tunes that would have been very familiar to the actors in his company.
Tracks:
Hark, hark! the lark
When Daffodils Begin to Peer
When Daisies Pied
Fortune my foe
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
Lawn as White as Driven Snow
Kemp's Jig
Callino
It Was a Lover and His Lass
When That I Was
How Should I Your True Love Know?
Bonny Sweet Robin
Tomorrow is St Valentine's Day
And Will He Not Come Again?
In Youth When I Did Love
Tarleton's Resurrection
Hey, Jolly Robin
The Poor Soul Sat Sighing, `Willow Song`
O Mistress Mine • Come Away Death
4 Divisions on popular tunes: Greensleeves - Jig - Walsingham - The Squirrell's Toy
Farewell Dear Heart
Packington's Pound
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
O Sweet Oliver
Light o' Love
Who is Sylvia?
The Sick Tune
Sigh No More Ladies
Come Live With Me
When Griping Grief
O Death Rock Me Asleep
Heartsease
You Spotted Snakes
The Woozel Cock
Full Fathom Five
My Lady Hunsdon's Puff
Where the bee sucks
