Shakespeare: 2. Suggested music for the plays

SETTINGS FOR SHAKESPEARE PLAYS IN MUSIC OF HIS TIME
incorporating passages which relate to music and dancing

* Indicates that this word will be found in the NOTES and, where appropriate, a choice of musical possibilities with notation of the top line of the opening musical phrase. The constantly recurring stage directions involving signals, such as alarm, flourish, march, parley, retreat, sennet, tucket as well as the names of instruments will also be found there.

Bibliographical references within curved brackets indicate that comment is to be found there or that a musical title is suggested but without providing notation.

• All’s well that ends well (AW-6)
• Antony and Cleopatra (A&C-8)
• As You Like It (As-9)
• The Comedy of Errors (CoE-2)
• Coriolanus (Cor-2)
• Cymbeline (Cym-8)
• Hamlet (Ham-17)
• Henry IV part 1 (1H4-4)
• Henry IV part 2 (2H4-16)
• Henry V (H5-6)
• Henry VI part 1 (1H6-5)
• Henry VI part 2 (2H6-3)
• Henry VI part 3 (3H6-4)
• Henry VIII (H8-24)
• Julius Caesar (JC-4)
• King John (KJ-1)
• King Lear (KL-22)
• Love’s Labour’s lost (LLL-17)
• Macbeth (Mac-8)
• Measure for Measure (MfM-2)
• The Merchant of Venice (MoV-9)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (MW-14)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MND-30)
• Much ado about nothing (Mu-27)
• Othello (Oth-7)
• Pericles (Per-13)
• Richard II (R2-5)
• Richard III (R3-2)
• Romeo and Juliet (R&J-11)
• The Taming of the Shrew (ToS-15)
• The Tempest (Tem-21)
• Timon of Athens (ToA-5)
• Titus Andronicus (T.A.-6)
• Troilus and Cressida (T&C-7)
• Twelfth Night (TN-34)
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (TGoV-7)
• The Two Noble Kinsmen (TNK-26)
• The Winter’s Tale (WT-18)