BR121 notes the use of dance in modern productions
| act | scene | line | Click here to find out more about suggested song | |
| I | ii | 0; 77 | A Flourish of cornetts; {Flourish} N&161, 200 | |
| iii | 60-63 | {He sings} For I the ballad will repeat…Your cuckoo sings by kind. No music known | 1 | |
| a) uCM10 + à4: adapted from a *Hunt’s up tune (lute: PIPI Jane Pickering’s lute book. 1616 Facsimile [GB-Lbl Egerton MS 2046] See: Key to symbols f32/ ‘New Hunt’s up’ treble and ground LRLR Lundgren, Stefan. Englische Duette für 2 Renaissancelauten. Tablature. 4 vols. 2nd ed. See: Key to symbols38 (BOBO Board lute book, with an introduction by Robert Spencer. See: Key to symbols f2v-3r 8); setting attrib. WHITFELDE 1615 The English huntsuppe as consort rSATB + g/k |
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| b) DO47-49 CORNYSHE ‘Ah Robyn’ à 3 (set to 3rd or 4th line) | (362a) | |||
| 69-77 | [44]. Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,…There’s yet one good in ten. cf. NA24 No music known for the ‘Troy stanzas’ cf. NC; LF15 part of old ballad now lost ‘Lamentation of Hecuba and Ladies of Troy’ cf ME206-7 | 2 | ||
| a) uCM 11-13 + à 4: 1621 BULL My juell rSATB + g/k; rA+ g BUd3; kMB ixx 142 with variants p.141a-d/ MB19s 11/ kRV24/ FE15, also in earlier version as ‘Coranto’ F138 | ||||
| b) uDO425 ‘Heartsease’ set as a lute song; ۞DO i 65 | (281b) | |||
| 78-81 | [What,‘one good in ten’? You corrupt the song, sirrah./ One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying o’th’ song]. | |||
| II | i | 0 | Flourish of cornetts (B276) N&160-2, 200 | |
| 54-55 | […though the devil lead the *measure] | |||
| 71-74 | [I have seen a medicine That’s able to… make you dance of *canary With sprightly fire and motion] | |||
| 172-3 | [Traduced by odious ballads, my maiden’s name Seared otherwise…] | |||
| 212 | Flourish. Exeunt (B276) cornetts N&161, 200 | |||
| ii | 22-3 | […as…a *morris for May Day] BroS9 Staines morris | 3 (276e) | |
| 25 | […as the nun’s lip the friar’s mouth] DO155 ‘The friar and the nun’ | 4 (296c) | ||
| iii | 43-4 | The King and Helen dance [Why, he’s able to lead her a *coranto]. | ||
| 61-2 | [My mouth no more were broken than these boys’, And writ as little beard] cf C.T. Onions Shakespeare glossary 1946 | |||
| 184 | {Flourish} | |||
| III | i | 0; 23 | Flourish of trumpets; Flourish | |
| ii | 6-9 | [Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, mend the ruff and sing, ask questions and sing; pick his teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a good manor for a song.] | ||
| iii | 0 | Flourish of trumpets Enter …a drummer and trumpeters… | ||
| v | 0 | A tucket afar off; | ||
| 1-9; 7 | [trumpets heard]; {tucket} MM50: trumpets military, not royal. | |||
| 8-9 | Hark! You may know them from their *trumpets]. | |||
| 37 | Sound of a *march, far off. LF 18-19: cornetti (CHf57). NC approaching band | |||
| vi | 36-44 | […let him fetch his drum. He says he has a strategem for’t. When your lorship sees the bottom of his success in’t, and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted,…/…let him fetch off his drum in any hand.] | ||
| 45-6 | [How now, monsieur! This drum sticks sorely in your disposition?] DO266-9 Monsieur’s Almaine set as a lute song to Deloney poem ‘O noble England, fall down upon thy knee’ | 5 (256a ii) | ||
| 47-63 | […’Tis but a drum./ But a drum? Is’t but a drum? A drum so lost!/…/…I would have that drum…] | |||
| 75 | Enter, with drummer and colours | |||
| 89 | Lose our drum? | |||
| vii | 39-41 | [Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs composed To her unworthiness.] | ||
| IV | i | 63 | [A drum now of the enemy’s] Alarum within | |
| 90 | A short alarum within | |||
| iii | 305 | [There is no remedy sir, but you must die] DO281 ‘O Death rock me asleep’ lute song | 6(56a) | |
| V | ii | 49-50 | Trumpets sound. [The King’s coming; I know by his trumpets]. LF 17: tucket and flourish | |
| iii | 0; 335 | Flourish of trumpets. |