Thanks a lot Rainer!
Very interesting.
Looking forward to check.
G.
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This might be interesting
https://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2007/beckmang19812/beckmang19812.pdf
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Thanks, Ron. You confirm what I feared: that there are no 17th-century
songs for two sopranos accompanied by lute or theorbo, which are
associated with Shakespeare. Thanks for suggesting Robert Jones' Sweet
Kate. Faute de mieux I was planning to use Jones' songs for two voices
I have both books and a few others about Shakespeare and music.
I only found (Taylor, "Shakespeare and Music", 1931 and Wilson & Galore, Music
in Shakespeare, 2005):
There is a reference to three-man songs in Winter's Tale.
Quite far-fetched, but you might transpose one of the songs by
Dear Stewart,
Having worked on this subject for my M.A. dissertation a lng time ago ;-),
I would recommend a book which must be out of print now : "Musique de scène de
la troupe de Shakespeare. The King's Men sous le règne de Jacques 1er", by J.P.
Cutts, who was a teacher at Birmingham
