Richard III (R3-2)

(CM203: 2 cues) SM17 in this play ‘the blaring stridency of military instruments is both self-expression and psychological compensation’. The York Waits have produced an excellent recording of 21 pieces ‘Music from the time of Richard III’ ۞Saydisc CD-SDL364

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I i 7-8 [Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings. Our dreadful marches to delightful *measures.]
12-13 [He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute].
24-27 [Why, I in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity] W8-9 his villainy characterised by the rustic pipe (descant recorder)
93-94 [We say that Shore’s wife hath a pretty foot…] 271
a) DO355-8 ‘Woeful lamentation of mistress Jane Shore’ set to ‘Come live with me and be my love’ tune and words (180a)
b) DO358-365 ‘Lamentation of Shore’s wife’ set to ‘The New Hunt is up; (18, 948)
II i 0 Flourish
III i 0; 149 The Trumpets sound; A sennet
v 15 no s.d. [Hark! a drum!].
28-31 […his conversation with Shore’s wife,…] DO355-365 (271)
IV ii 0; 3 Sound a sennet; Sound {a sennet}
79 [Thou sing’st sweet music] ( figuratively)
iv 134-5 A march within [The trumpet sounds. Be copious in exclaims]
135 Enter…{marching with drummers and trumpeters}
149-151 [A flourish, trumpets! Strike alarum, drums!…Strike I say!] Flourish. Alarums
469 {Flourish}
V ii 0 Enter…with drum and colours
v 70-130 (B243) *supernatural music: eerie sounds in wailing minor key: flutes and shivering of cymbals would be effective 271A
224 {Exeunt to the sound of drums and trumpets}
vi 67 Drum afar off.
vii 0; 6 Alarum. Excursions; Alarums
viii 0; 41 Alarum…Retreat and flourish; {Flourish}

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