Fifty Shakspere songs / edited by Charles Vincent.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Vincent, Charles, 1852-1934.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Musicians library (Boston, Mass.)

The musicians library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs (Low voice) with piano.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Musical settings.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Musical settings.

Songs.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 score (xxix, 157 pages) : illustrations ; 32 cm.

Edition:

For low voice.

Other Title:

Shakspere songs.

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Oliver Ditson Co. ; Bryn Mawr, Pa. : T. Presser, distributors, [1906]

Contents:

Songs mentioned by Shakspere in his plays. Farewell, dear love / Robert Jones. Peg o' Ramsay ; Green-sleeves ; Heigh ho! for a husband ; Heart's ease ; Light o' love ; Three merry men be we / unknown

Songs possibly sung in the original performances. The willow song / unknown. O mistress mine / unknown. It was a lover and his lass / Thomas Morley. Where the bee sucks ; Full fathom five thy father lies / Robert Johnson. Lawn as white as driven snow / John Wilson or Robert Johnson. Take, o take those lips away / John Wilson

Settings composed since Shakspere's time to the middle of the nineteenth century. Come unto these yellow sands / John Banister. Where the bee sucks ; The willow song / Pehlam Humfrey. Come unto these yellow sands ; Full fathom five thy father lies / Henry Purcell. Who is Sylvia? / Richard Leveridge. Where the bee sucks ; When daisies pied and violets blue ; When icicles hang by the wall / Thomas Augustine Arne. No more dams I'll make for fish / John Christopher Smith. She never told her love / Franz Joseph Haydn. When that I was a little tiny boy / Joseph Vernon. Sigh no more, ladies / R.J.S. Stevens. Now the hungry lion roars / William Linley. If music be the food of love, play on / John Charles Clifton. Over hill, over dale / Thomas Simpson Cook. Bid me discourse / Sir Henry Rowley Bishop. The willow song / Gioachino Rossini. Hark, hark! the lark ; Who is Sylvia? / Franz Schubert. Hark, hark! the lark / Karl Friedrich Curschmann

Recent settings. When that I was a little boy / Robert Schumann. Autolycus' song / James Greenhill. Sigh no more, ladies / Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Sir C. Hubert H. Parry. Who is Sylvia? / Monk Gould. Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; Sigh no more, ladies / William Arms Fisher. It was a lover and his lass / Gerard Barton. Orpheus with his lute ; Under the greenwood tree / Carl Busch. And let me the canakin clink ; Crabbed age and youth / Harvey Worthington Loomis. Orpheus with his lute / Charles Fonteyn Manney. It was a lover and his lass / H. Clough-Leighter. O mistress mine / S. Coleridge-Taylor.

Notes:

"Notes on the songs": p. [xiii]-xxvi.

"D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston."

OCLC:

63601342

Publisher Number:

Oliver Ditson ML-1349-2--ML-1398-4