In harmony with nature: reception and study of "Under the greenwood tree" – a song by William Shakespeare for As You Like It
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Shakespeare’s plays, Scene songs, Music at the Drury Lane TheatreAbstract
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the edition of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), we honour the author with the study of "Under the greenwood tree", a song by Shakespeare for As You Like It, II.v., aiming to clarify the role of the music in the scene, its original motivation, how it fits within the dialogue performed by the characters, transporting the audience to the golden world of the forest of Arden where ‘there are no enemies but winter and rough weather’. (II.v.6–8) To this purpose, we divided the article into several layers of commentaries and, at the end, we provided the music score composed for the song by Thomas Augustine Arne, with the Choir of Foresters added by William Linley, the earlier example to be found, since the original music of this song has been lost.
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