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Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall), 1867-1934

"Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries"

36.
Solmisation of the six notes of the Hexachord, 11th century, see p.
37. _Shrew_ III, i, 72.
[Music: (Natural Hexachord) Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La
(Hard Hexachord) Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La]
The six notes from F, with B _flat_, were called the 'Soft' Hexachord.
4. Lesson for the Lute, by Thomas Mace, b. 1613, from Musick's
Monument, 1676, see p. 55. _Shrew_ III, i, 58.
[Music: "My Mistress."]
_Cf._ p. 30, on 'Broken' music.
5. Tune of Light o' Love, original words not known, but date before
1570, p. 70. _Much Ado_ V, iv, 41, etc.
[Music]
6. Parson Hugh's song, 'To Shallow Rivers,' tune anonymous, date
probably 16th century, p. 71. _Merry Wives_ III, i, 18.
[Music:
To shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals;
There will we make our beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
When as I sat in Babylon,
And a thousand vagram posies.]
7. 'Come Live with Me,' tune printed 1612, but probably much older.
See p. 71. Marlowe's 'Passionate Pilgrim,' XX., or _Merry Wives_ III,
i, 18.
[Music:
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountain yields.]
8. Peg-a-Ramsey, p. 71. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 76.
[Music: Sir Toby]
9. 'Three Merry Men be We,' p. 71. _Tw. Nt._ II, iii, 76. Words from
Peele's 'Old Wives Tale,' 1595, where it is sung.


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