Rachel Gates's List: Music in Shakespearean Plays

• announce the royal procession in Hamlet.
• Music was used to announce the arrival or entrance of kings and nobles.

•  In Act 1  scene 4 of   Hamlet   there is a  note    A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off,  within. 

   

    Trumpets  and kettledrums  announce the royal procession in Hamlet.  

•  In Act 1 scene 4 of  Hamlet there is a note  A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within.  

   

   Trumpets and kettledrums  announce the royal procession in Hamlet.
• He also musical instruments in the dialogue to develop characters. 
• Nobles and members of the middle class  knew how to play the recorder, the viol or the lute. 

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• varied and inventive, delightful and moving
• sophisticated and varied, capable of communicating many moods
• --used music to heighten the drama.

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• stage itself*
• ageless folk music
• special musicians' gallery
• under the stage
• The comedies are full of song and the gentle twanging of the lute, while the  tragedies and histories echo with the ceremonial sound of trumpets and drums.

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• Music sets a mood in many of Shakespeare's plays
• lute*, recorder, or viol
• trumpet, drum and fife
• bandore
• drum, and a treble viol, a bass viol
• cithern

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