A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakespear's Plays (Various)

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11 more: Antony and Cleopatra • As You Like It • Cymbeline • Hamlet • Henry IV, Part II • Henry VIII • King Lear • Love's Labour's Lost • Macbeth • Measure for Measure • The Merchant of Venice

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Arranger John Addison (d. 1844), piano arrangement
Editor John Caulfield (b. 1774)
Publisher. Info. London & New York: Samuel French, n.d.
London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, n.d.
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12 more: Macbeth • A Winter's Tale • Othello • Cymbeline • Hamlet • King Lear • The Merry Wives of Windsor • Henry IV, Part II • Henry VIII • Much Ado About Nothing • As You Like It • Romeo and Juliet

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Arranger John Addison (d. 1844), piano arrangement
Editor John Caulfield (b. 1774)
Publisher. Info. London: J. Caulfield, n.d.
London: Messrs. Bone & Co., for the editor, n.d.
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7 more: Love's Labour's Lost • Much Ado About Nothing • As You Like It • The Tempest • Two Gentlemen of Verona • The Merry Wives of Windsor • Twelfth Night

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Editor John Caulfield (b. 1774)
Publisher. Info. London: J. Caulfield, n.d.
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Arranger John Addison (d. 1844), piano arrangement
Editor John Caulfield (b. 1774)
Publisher. Info. [London: J. Caulfield, n.d.]
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Misc. Notes Title-pages missing, plays presented in a different order.
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Work Title A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakespeare's Plays
Alternative. Title A Collection of the Vocal Music in Shakespear's Plays, including the whole of the Songs, Duetts, Glees, Choruses, &c. Engraved from original MS & early printed Copies chiefly from the Collection of W. Kitchiner, Esqr. M.D. Revised & Arranged with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte by Mr Addison
Composer Various
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's at least 2 volumes
Thomas Augustine Arne: "Thou soft flowing Avon". Larghetto
  • Antony & Cleopatra
Henry Purcell: "Come, thou Monarch of the Vine" (Act II, Scene 7)
  • As You Like It
1. Arne: "Under the greenwood tree" (Act II, Scene 5)
2. Arne: "Blow, blow, thou winter's wind". Andante
3. John Stafford Smith: Glee, "What shall he have that killed the deer?". Allegro (Act IV, Scene 2)
4. Arne: "When daisies pied". Andante
5. Richard John Samuel Stevens: Glee, "It was a lover and his lass". Vivace (Act V, Scene 3)
6. Arne: Hymen's Song, "Then is there Mirth in Heaven?" (Act V, Scene 4)
  • Cymbeline
1. Stevens: "Hark, hark, the lark". Siciliana (Act II, Scene 3)
2. John Weldon: "Fear no more, the Heat of the Sun". Largo
  • Hamlet
1. trad.: "How should I your true love know?" (Act IV, Scene 5)
2.    "    : "He is dead and gone, lady"
3.    "    : "White his shroud as mountain snow"
4.    "    : "Larded with sweet flowers"
5.    "    : "Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day"
6.    "    : "They bore him bare-faced on the bier"
7.    "    : "For bonny sweet Robin"
8.    "    : "And will he come again?"
9.    "    : Grave Diggers' Song, "In youth when I did love" (Act V, Scene 1)
  • Henry IV, Part 2
unknown: Song & Chorus, "Do nothing but eat" (Act V, Scene 3)
  • Henry VIII
Thomas Chilcot: "Orpheus with his lute". Andante (Act III, Scene 1)
  • King Lear
1. trad.: "Fools had ne'er less grace in a year". Lively (Act I, Scene 4)
2.    "    : "Then they for sudden joy did weep". Moderato
3.    "    : "He that keeps nor crust nor crumb"
4.    "    : "The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo". Moderato (Act I, Scene 4)
5.    "    : "Fathers that wear rags" (Act II, Scene 4)
6.    "    : "That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain". Moderato
  • Love's Labour's Lost
1. Arne: "On a day, alack the day!" (Act IV, Scene 3)
2. Smith: "When icicles hang on the wall". Poco allegro
  • Macbeth
1. Matthew Locke: Introduction
2. Locke: "Speak, sister, speak"
3.     "    : "He must, he will, he shall"
4.     "    : "Now let's dance"
5.     "    : "At the night raven's". Adagio
6.     "    : "Hecate, Hecate, come away!" (Act III)
7.     "    : "With the fall'n dew"
8.     "    : "Black spirits and white" (Act IV)
9.     "    : "Tiffin, Tiffin"
10.   "    : "Around, around about"
  • Measure for Measure
Weldon: Take, O take, those lips away. Largo (Act IV, Scene I)
  • Merchant of Venice
1. John Stevenson: Tell me where is Fancy bred?. Andante -- Moderato
2. John Wall Callcott: "Haste, Lorenzo". Allegro ma non troppo
3. unknown: "My bliss too long"
4. Samuel Arnold: "To keep my gentle Jessy". Andante
5. William Shield: Serenade, "O happy fair". Sprightly
  • Merry Wives of Windsor
1. unknown: "To shallow rivers, to whose falls". Larghetto (Act III, Scene 1)
2. John Addison: "Fie on sinful fantasy!". Andante (Act V, Scene 5)
  • Midsummer Night's Dream
1. Henry Rowley Bishop: Air, "By the simplicity of Venus' doves". Andante amoroso (Act I, Scene 1)
2. Bishop: Air, "O happy fair". Andante grazioso (Act I, Scene 1)
3. Thomas Cooke: Air, "Over hill, over dale". Allegro vivace e spiritoso
4. Felix Mendelssohn: Fairy Music. Allegro molto vivace (Act II, Scene 1)
5. Mendelssohn: Fairy March
6. Recit., "That very time I saw" and Air, "Love in idleness"
7. Charles Edward Horn: Duet, "I know a bank". Andante
8. Mendelssohn: Introduction (Act II, Scene 2)
9. Stevens: Glee, "Ye spotted snakes"
10. Mendelssohn: Incantation, etc. (Act II, Scene 2)
11.           "         : Incantation, "What thou seest"
12.           "         : Interlude & remainder of Music to Act II
13. trad.: "The Ousel Cock"
14. Mendelssohn: Music to Act III
15. Smith: "Flower of this purple dye"
16. Mendelssohn: Fairy Music to end of Act III
17. Recit., "Lo! Night's swift dragons" and Air, "But we are Spirits"
18. Air, "Spirit, lead them up and down"
19. Air, "On the ground"
20. Jonathan Battishill: Air, "Be, as thous wast wont to be". Andantino con moto (Act IV, Scene 1)
21. Trio, "Fairy King, attend and mark"
22. Mendelssohn: Music to Act IV
23.           "         : Wedding March. Allegro vivace
24.           "         : Music to Act V, Scene 1
25. Bishop: Solo & Chorus, "To the best bride bed", and
26. "In Theseus' House" (Act V, Scene 2)
27. Finale, "Puck"
  • Much Ado About Nothing
1. Stevens: "Sigh no more, Ladies". Andante (Act II, Scene 3)
2. ditto, as a Glee
3. Arne: "Pardon, Goddess of the Night". Andante (Act V, Scene 3)
Song, "The God of Love" (Act V, Scene 2)
  • Othello
1. ancient: "Iago's Songs"
2.      "     : "Willow"
  • Romeo and Juliet
Bishop: The Dirge (as performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
  • The Tempest
1. Purcell: "Come unto these yellow sands". Lively
2.      "     : "Full fathom five". Largo
3. Smith: "No more dams I'll make for fish". Allegretto
4. Arne: "Where the bee sucks". Allegretto
5. Purcell: Catch, "Flout 'em and scout 'em".
6. trad.: "Stephano's Songs"
7.    "    : "While you here do sleeping lie"
8. Stevens: "O bid your faithful Ariel fly". Allegro moderato
9. Cooke: "Honour, riches, marriage, blessing". Allegro moderato
10. Finale, quartet harmonized by William Jackson: "Where the bee sucks". Allegro
  • The Twelfth Night
1. Addison: "O mistress mine". Andante (Act II, Scene 3)
2. trad.: Catch, "Hold thy peace"
3. Arne: Catch, "Which is the properest day to drink?"
4. trad.: "Tilly valley, lady" and sequence
5. Arne: "Come away, Death". Largo (Act II, Scene 4)
6. trad.: "Hay Robin, jolly Robin" (Act IV, Scene 3)
7.    "    : "Epilogue Song". Spiritoso
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona
Arne: Serenade, "Who is Silvia? What is she?" (Act IV, Scene 2)
  • Winter's Tale
1. trad.: "When daffodils begin to peer". Allegretto (Act IV, Scene 2)
2.    "    : "But shall I go mourn for that, my dear"
3.    "    : "Jog on, jog on"
4.    "    : "Lawn as white as driven snow". Allegro (Act IV, Scene 3)
5.    "    : "Will you buy any tape?". Lively
6. William Boyce: Trio, "Get you hence". Allegro
Librettist William Shakespeare
Language English
Dedication Hon. Mrs. George Wrottesley (by John Caulfield)
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voice(s), piano
Extra Information These music plates were published/republished in different orders at different times.