Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without," etc. Now, this seems to me to be a strange omission. It cannot have been done intentionally. Perhaps in the Russian version the text is altered and the kettledrum missed out. Of course, the side-drum is generally used in En...
Edwards's _Paradise of Daintee Devices_, and sung to a so-called traditional tune. But if there is no song like "Sigh no more, ladies," or "Who is Sylvia?", there is little doub...
4. Act ii. opens at Belmont. Portia is wondering about her father's will,and she sings quite a long and florid song {75} about it. Bassanio enters and declares his love, and a long and impassioned duet follows, at the end of which is a lengthy fanfar...
3. Act iv. begins with a long and complicated ballet, which is about thechanges of weather from which we suffer, and Ophelia's "mad scene" comes in the midst of it. The tyranny of the grand-opera ballet is one of the most cramping things that have e...
1. Scene 2), the King says, "Give me the cups; And let the kettle to thetrumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without," etc. Now, this seems to me to be a strange omission. It cannot have been done intentionally. Perhaps in the Russian version...
2. Act ii. opens with a short prelude on one of Ophelia's themes, and thenthere is a long recitative and aria for her (Ophelia). I do not think it would be wise or expedient {30} to give an exact analysis of this work, so I will pass over with but few...