Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19790; Thu, 1 Oct 98 16:58:36 EDT Received: from xkey.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07840; Thu, 1 Oct 98 16:58:34 EDT Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by xkey.com id NAA07680 for minstrel-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:42:56 -0700 Received: (from lindahl@localhost) by xkey.com id QAA07674; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 16:42:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199810012042.QAA07674@xkey.com> Subject: Re: minstrel: Bardic, Period, Etc. To: lilyrose@mail.sjcsf.edu (Lily Rose) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 16:42:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Greg Lindahl" Cc: minstrel@pbm.com In-Reply-To: from "Lily Rose" at Oct 1, 98 02:38:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1430 Sender: owner-minstrel@rt.com Precedence: bulk > Appropriate to Shakespeare's place and time. Supposedly there is existing > music for about half the songs, but I haven't tracked it down yet.... How about this? It's an entry from my bibliography, which is linked to the minstrel webpage. I'm not sure if this guy's name is pronounced Charl-ton or Char-la-tan, but I don't think there is a better book out there. Charlton, Andrew. Music in the Plays of Shakespeare: A Practicum. Garland, 1991 ISBN 0-8153-0405-6. 440 pages, $95.

GL: This volume is exactly what its title suggests: a practical set of music for performing Shakespeare's plays. The scoring varies; some combination of SATB consort, classical guitar, and piano is provided for every piece. Where melodies are not known, other late 16th/early 17th century melodies have been substituted. Unfortunately, he doesn't give any detailed notes about any of the scholarship, even though the introduction makes it sound like many of these pieces were transcribed from manuscripts. Only a "Selected Bibliography" is given. This is a shame; for example, the catch "Hold thy peace" is listed as being 16th century. The only instance I know of it is Ravenscroft, 1609. So perhaps there is an earlier manuscript of this catch? Ditto for "Of all the birds". [Actually I know a "Hold thy peace" in Lant from 1580, but it's different from the one in Ravenscroft and this book...]

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