Some Other Note

English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries.

A native of Canada, Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, where he specializes in historical performance practice. Among his books are Shakespeare's Songbook (W. W. Norton, 2004), and How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) (Norton, 2007). Duffin has been described as "virtually synonymous with music and Shakespeare," and his book was lauded as "a musicological tour de force, totally without pedantry, a book which will forever change Shakespeare productions."

Glossary
Foreword, by Tiffany Stern
Prologue - Editorial Note
Acknowledgments (not yet included)
Part 1. Background of the 15th and 16th Centuries
1. Mystery/Morality Plays
The Shepherds Plays
Mankind
2. Court Enterludes
William Cornysh (d.1523)
John Skelton (ca.1463-1529)
John Heywood (ca.1497-ca.1580)
Nicholas Udall (1504-1556)
3. St Paul's Enterludes
John Redford (fl.1534-47)
Sebastian Westcott (fl.1545-82)
4. Chapels Royal Enterludes
William Crane (d.1545)
Richard Bower (fl.1524-61): Apius and Virginia
Richard Edwards (1525-1566): Damon and Pythias
Richard Farrant (fl.1553-1580)
William Hunnis (fl.1550-97)
John Lyly (ca.1553-1606): Woman in the Moon
George Peele (1556-96): Arraignment of Paris
5. University and Inns of Court Enterludes
Gammer Gurton's Needle (1553)
Bugbears (1564-66)
Horestes (1567)
Like will to Like (1568)
Misogonus (1570)
6. Continental Influences
France
Rome
Germany
Italy
Part 2. London Comedy to 1625
7. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
The Case is altered (ca.1597, pr. 1609)
Every man in his humour (1598, pr. 1601)
Every man out of his humour (1599, pr. 1600)
Cynthia's Revels (1600, pr. 1601)
The Poetaster (1601, pr. 1602)
Eastward Ho (1605) with Marston and Chapman
Volpone, or the Fox (ca.1605-06, pr. 1607)
Epicœne, or the Silent woman (1609, pr. 1616)
Bartholomew Fair (1614, pr. 1631)
The Divel is an Asse (1616, pr. 1631)
The Staple of News (1625/6, pr. 1631)
8. George Chapman (1559-1634)
The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1595/6, pr. 1598)
An Humorous Day's Mirth (1597, pr. 1599)
Sir Gyles Goosecap (1606)
The Gentleman Usher (pr. 1606)
May-Day (pr. 1611)
The Widow's Tears (pr. 1612)
9. John Marston (1576-1634)
Histrio-mastix (1599, pr. 1610)
Antonio and Mellida (1599-1600, pr. 1602)
Jack Drum's Entertainment (1599-1600, pr. 1601)
What you will (1601, pr. 1607)
The Malcontent (1603-04, pr. 1604)
Parasitaster, or the Fawn (1604, pr. 1606)
The Dutch Courtesan (1605)
10. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
The Shoemaker's Holiday, or the Gentle Craft (1599?, pr. 1600)
Old Fortunatus (1600)
Blurt, Master Constable (1602)
Satiro-mastix (1602)
Patient Grissell (1603)
The Honest Whore (1604, pr. 1605) with Middleton
Westward Ho (1607) with Webster
Northward Ho (1607) with Webster
The Merry Devil of Edmonton (1608) attr.
The Roaring Girl (1611) with Middleton
If it be not good, the Devil is in it (1612)
11. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
The Faithful Shepherdess (1608?, pr. 1609?)
Monsieur Thomas (ca.1610, pr. 1639)
The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed (ca.1611, pr. 1647)
Wit without Money (ca.1614, pr. 1639)
The Mad Lover (1617, pr. 1647)
The Chances (ca.1617, pr. 1647)
The Loyal Subject (lic. 1618, pr. 1647)
The Humorous Lieutenant (ca.1619, pr. 1647)
Women Pleased (ca.1619-23, pr. 1647)
The Wild Goose Chase (ca.1621, pr. 1652)
The Pilgrim (ca.1621, pr. 1647)
The Maid in the Mill (lic. 1623, pr. 1647)
12. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
Michaelmas Term (1604, pr. 1607)
A Trick to Catch the Old One (1605, pr. 1608)
A Mad World, my Masters (1605, pr. 1608)
Your Five Gallants (1607, pr. 1608)
Wit at Several Weapons (1613, pr. 1647)
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca.1613, pr. 1630)
More Dissemblers besides Women (1615, pr. 1657)
The Widow (1615-16, pr. 1652)
The Witch (1616)
The Old Law (ca.1615-18, pr. 1656) with Massinger and Rowley
A Game at Chess (1624, pr. 1625)
13. Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
The Woman Hater (1606, pr. 1607) with Fletcher
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607, pr. 1613)
The Coxcomb (1608-10, pr. 1647) with Fletcher and Massinger
The Captain (1609-12, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
Beggars' Bush (ca.1612-15, pr. 1647) with Fletcher and Massinger
Love's Cure (ca.1612-15, pr. 1647) with Fletcher and Massinger
14. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
The Queen of Corinth (ca.1616-18, pr. 1647) with Field
The Knight of Malta (ca.1616-18, pr, 1647) with Field
The Little French Lawyer (ca.1619-22, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
The Spanish Curate (lic. 1622, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
The Lovers' Progress (lic. 1623, pr. 1647) with Fletcher
15. Other Playwrights:
George Whetstone (1550-1587)
Promos and Cassandra (1578)
Thomas Nash (1567-ca.1601)
Summer's Last Will (1592, pr. 1600)
William Haughton (d.1605)
Englishmen for my Money (1598, pr. 1616)
Thomas Heywood (1570s-1641)
Edward IV (1599)
Fair Maid of the Exchange (pr. 1607)
A Woman Killed with Kindness (pr. 1607)
William Percy (1570-1648)
Arabia Sitiens (1601)
Cuckqueanes and Cuckolds Errants (1601)
The Aphrodysial (1602)
The Faery Pastoral (1603)
Edward Sharpham (1576-1608)
The Fleire (1606, pr. 1607)
Cupid's Whirligig (1607)
16. Anonymous Plays ca.1600
Mucedorus (ca.1590, pr. 1598)
Old Wives Tale (1595)
Dr. Dodypoll (1600)
The Maid's Metamorphosis (1600)
17. Jigs
The Central Repertory
Frauncis new Jigge (reg. 1595, pr. 1617)
The Wooing of Nan
Singing Simpkin (reg. 1595, pr. 1656)
The Black Man (pr. 1673)
The Jig of St. Denys' Ghost
The Libel of Michael Steele (1601)
The Cheaters Cheated (pr. ca.1660)
Fools Fortune (ca.1620)
Shorter Jigs
A Spanish Gentleman and an English Gentlewoman (ca.1570)
A Iigge for the Ballad-mongers (pr. 1595)
A New Northeren Iigge, called Daintie come thou to me (reg. 1591, pr. ca.1619)
The Souldiers Farewel to his love (reg. 1624, pr. ca.1663)
A Country new Iigge betweene Simon and Susan (pr. ca.1620)
A mery new Iigge. Or the pleasant wooing betwixt Kit and Pegge (pr. ca.1630)
Clods Carroll (pr. ca.1615)
Fragments and Discoveries
The souldier and his knapsack bearer (ca.1649)
Put up thy dagger Jamie (pr. 1641)
Country Jigge from Thomas of Reading (pr. 1612)
Bonny Nell (ca.1600)
Appendix:
Lyly's added songs (1632)