Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01
Two folio leaves, paginated 87-88 and [88bis], detached from a First Treble part book (now
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.
Mid-late 17th century.A complete facsimile of these pages is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).
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ShW 90 p. 87
Copy of Ariel's song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
Johnson's setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659). Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 24. Discussed in Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I, ii, 400-9. Song ('Full fathom five thy father lies') -
ShW 98 pp. 88, [88bis]
Copy of Ariel's song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), the inserted second page (the verso blank) containing three additional stanzas and docketed by Lowe
this I had of Madam Trumball at Chalfont: 27 sept. 1676
andthes supposd to bee made by Mr Smith Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury
.William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song ('Where the bee sucks, there suck I')