| act | scene | line | Click here to find out more about suggested song | |
| I | i | 0 | *Dead march CM419 drums | |
| 78-81 | [Awake, awake, English nobility!] DO 54-6 ‘Awake, awake! O England!’ set to a version of tune ‘Mall Simms’ ۞DO ii 1 | 77 | ||
| ii | 0 | Sound a flourish…marching with drummer and soldiers | ||
| 18 | [Sound, sound alarum!] | |||
| iii | 0 | Here alarum. {Drums} | ||
| vi | 47 | Here they shoot off chambers {within} | ||
| 58-9 | [Whilst any trump did sound or drum struck up, His sword did ne’er leave striking] | |||
| 73-4 | […and like thee, Nero, Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn.] | |||
| 75, 89 | Here an alarm., and it thunders and lightens [What stir is this? What tumult’s in the heavens? Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?]; Alarum | |||
| vii | 0, 26 | Here an alarum again; A short alarum | ||
| viii | 0; 31 | Flourish; Flourish. | ||
| II | i | 7 | …drums beating a *dead march SM16 muffled drums; | |
| 39; 78 | {Alarum}; Alarum | |||
| ii | 3 | Retreat is sounded | ||
| iii | 60 | He winds his horn. Within, drums strike up; a peal of ordnance. | ||
| III | i | 0; 74 | Flourish; A noise within | |
| 76; 78; 190 | [What’s tumult’s this]; A noise again; Sennet | |||
| iv | 0 | An alarum | ||
| v | 0; 62 | An alarum; An alarum. Excursions | ||
| 68 | Retreat. Excursions | |||
| vi | 0 | An alarum | ||
| vii | 28; 30 | Drums sound afar off; Here sound an English *march | 78 | |
| N &166, 200-1: c1610 ‘The ancient English drum march’ | ||||
| 32 | Here sound a French *march (MM30/ SM15) drum alone | 79 | ||
| (B243) 1670 (from earlier original) Batterie de tambour: Gardes de la Marine N&201 | ||||
| 35 | Trumpets sound a parley | |||
| viii | 0; 27 | {Flourish}; Sennet | ||
| IV | i | 0, 173 | {Flourish}; Flourish | |
| ii | 0; 2 | Enter…with a trumpeter and drummer}; The trumpeter sounds a parley | ||
| 35-38 | [For ere the glass that now begins to run…] ‘All careful Christians, mark my song… The glass doth run…’ (18 verses) set to tune of Wigmore’s galliard. | 80 (247a) | ||
| 38-41 | Drum afar off [Hark, hark, the Dauphin’s drum, a warning bell, Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul; And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.] | |||
| iii | 0 | Enter…with a trumpeter | ||
| vi | 0 | Alarum. Excursions | ||
| 54 | [Then follow thou thy desp’rate sire of Crete, Thou Icarus.] DO215-7 ‘In Crete when Daedalus first began his long exile’ set to lute tune ‘In Crete’ | 81 (210) | ||
| vii | 0; 32 | Alarum. Excursions; {Alarum} | ||
| V | i | 0 | Sennet | |
| iii, iv | 0 | Alarum. Excursions: Excursions; | ||
| v | 0; 84 | Alarum; {Enter Captains, colours, and trumpeters}; | ||
| 86; 101 | Sound a parley; Trumpets sound |