Listening
exercise
Minnesota
Public Radio (MPR): Shakespeare songs
by
Marisa Helms
February 18,
2005
Audio
Text
and more links
Original
texts of Shakespeare's
"It was
a lover and his lass"
and his Sonnet
III
| probably popular to borrow to inset Elizabethan refrain nonsense syllables equivalent scat singing jazz sheer pleasure version Alfred Deller Deller Consort traditional to expect lute air period brisk cheerful quiet instrument single intimate to dance to (music) to enjoy play to sing along to take s.t. in tune infectious what we'd think of as art songs to enter common repertoire Maxine Sullivan African-American torch song Dick Hyman | Broadway
idiom lass reaction to to relate to clearly mischievous styles Latin beat cowbell Cleo Laine to base s.t. upon concert Christine Rosholt Duke Ellington Billy (Sammy?) Straighthorn Arthur Young Johnny Dankworth saxophone to set (words) to (music) composer all the way up to the present to be fascinated by sonnet particular combination capacity lyricism sweetness wit sharpness to reinterpret contemporary artist faddish (like a fad) specialty song to live with batch for any length of time | endlessly
lyrics folk songs to lend oneself to constant to reset to bring out links images MC Honky "I am the Messiah" witty wired electronic to make free use of technologies to have access to to mix idioms brazen shocking/to shock contemporaries event vocalist Macalester College coming up to come out of to emerge from general air festivity celebration rueful richness to warm people up to go looking for melodies sources setting to be worth knowing |