Hand in Hand with Fairy Grace

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1 H in H wh Firy Grce from Shkesere's 'A Midsummer Night's Drem' Benjmin Cooke ( )

2 i H in H wh Firy Grce Benjmin Cooke ( ) Eded Andrew Pink I m delighted flttered to hve en sked to edion H in H wh Firy Grce for erformnce in July 2005 Collegium Musicum London. The edion hs en rered from utogrh mnuscrit work dted 30 Setemr 1777, Dorset Court (ms. GbLcm ), which is to found in volume 13 Dr Cooke s Collection in librry Royl College Music, London. Benjmin Cooke ws distinguished musicl figure in 18thcentury London. He ws t only director The Acdemy Ancient Music role in which he ket live scholrly rcticl interest in music erlier times but he ws lso Orgnist Mster Choristers t Westminster A orgnist St Mrtin sinfields. Cooke ws fine comoser scred orchestrl music, ll kwn techer wrer on subject music ory, but ws s rolific comoser smllscle oulr, seculr chorl music like H in H tht he ws st kwn in his dy. Such ieces (glees, ctches cns) cme stle musicl diet mny clubs societies tht srng u ll over kingdom during 18th century, t just in those dedicted to music. In se surroundings convivily ws gurnteed ing simle vocl forms rusion music in rint, rovided very mny 18thcentury Brish comosers, is testment to widesred musicl lercy mongst oultion t lrge. H in H is text from lst scene Shkesere s A Midsummer Night s Drem. In lte 18th century erformnces Shkesere ten mde use glee settings for his song texts dese cricl voices occsionlly rised ginst rctice, in rticulr where song texts tht Shkesere llocted to le chrcter re set s glee to sung n ensemble. 1 Hover, Cooke s H in H ws t wrten for tre, lthough he did occsionlly comose music for London stge he lso hd limed ersonl involvement (wh A choristers) in roviding music for Drury Lne tre. 2 In fct Shkesere s A Midsummer Night s Drem ws rrely stged in 18th century. It received only 10 kwn erformnces in London during eriod ten restortion monrchy in The lst se erformnces ws on 18 July 1777 t Hymrket tre some months fore Cooke wrote H in H. 3 It is most likely tht Cooke comosed music for his own domestic consumtion, to erformed t regulr Sundy evening music rties held in his own home. These events re rincilly for Cooke fmily s entertinment, wh n oen house tmoshere tht lcomed vi musicins, ressionl mteur like. The diry young rovincil lwyermusicin John Mrsh ( ) conveys delightful imression ttending such evenings in 1780s: Mr Gore er introduced me to one sons Dr Cook, orgnist t Westminster A, who inved me to send evening t his fr s in Dorset Court, Westminster, who hd generlly on Sundy evenings kind Concerto Sirule wh his sons, dughters & or musicl eole [ ] led Mr R. Cook in which I w took rt & stid till 10 in course w ch time some D rs glees re erformed. 4 Cooke s setting H in H did t er in rint until fter comoser s deth, from which time onwrds quickly cquired considerble oulry. Sir Henry Rowley Bisho ( ) orchestrted clo wy section for use in his own setting incidentl music for A Midsummer 1 An Outwrd Show: music for Shkesere on London stge , Ry L. Neighrger (1992), Conneticut: Greenwood Press, The London Stge, , 11 vols, Crbondle: Sourn Illiis Universy Press ( ) 3 Index to London Stge, , Ben Ross Schneider, Jr (1979), Crbondle: Sourn Illiis Universy Press, The John Mrch Journls, eded Brin Robins (1998), Stuyvesnt: Pendrgon Press

3 Night s Drem in erly 19th century 5, s Brish Librry ctlogue shows, versions Cooke s H in H re still ing roduced right u to dvent 20th century. The erly, osthumously rinted coies Cooke s H in H vry considerbly from his utogrh, contining substntil edoril chnges: extr voice rts, keybord ccomniments chnges to text. Even so, y remined sources for ll lter edions work. As fr s I cn tell, originl version for unccomnied fivert chorus wh threert semi chorus hs never en widely vilble or erformed since time when Cooke ws still live. Edoril commentry All mteril lced whin squre brckets is edoril, excet s follows: lto ter clefs hve en modernised. dynmic instructions st, loud hve en modernised. term solo relces soli throughout. instruction le hs en omted where occurred: b. 81, sor; b. 84, ll voices. Dvid Johnson gives following definion Glee. A tye unccomnied rtsong, tyiclly for mle voices though ten including femle voices, which flourished in Engl from bout 1750 until World Wr I. The word is derived from Old English gleo, mening mirth or entertinment. [ ]The min insirtion hind 18thcentury glee ws English mdrigl , which ws ing rediscovered erformed t time bodies such s Acdemy Ancient Music.[ ] The glee borrod mny chrcteristics from erlier mdrigl: tendency to divide text into smll sections to give ech one different emotionl colouring, irresective oem s metricl structure; inclusion short homohonic ssges where one or more voices temorrily dro out ensemble to give semichorus effect; imtive counteroint close cn. 6 Andrew Pink, London, 31 My 2005 ii 5 Sirs Advnce Phili Pickett (dir) & The Musicins Glo (2002) Sir Henry Rowley Bisho: 19 songs. Series: The Brish Music Collection. Decc CD. ASIN: B000062UR Trck 19 6 Glee Dvid Johnson in Grove Music Online eded L. Mcy (ccessed 1 My 2005) <htt://

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