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There is no "original" setting extent for any Shakespeare song -- but they have all been set many times by many musicians (including "art" settings by the likes of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and many others). That's not a good answer because I suspect you want to know how to sing it either for a production or a project. So I sugeest you either a) explore a music library, where I suspect with a little research you can turn up a good bunch of settings by people great and small (about twenty years or so ago the Royal Shakespeare Company had a top-flight music director/composer/troubadour named Martin Best whose settings were among the best I've heard (I don't know if he did Benedick's sonnet, however); or b) go to same music library and get out some records of Elizabethan music (by such composers as William Byrd, John Dowland, Henry Purcell, etc.) and get a feel for what it sounded like and *compose your own!*Posted by JTJ on March 24, 1997 at 10:50:15
In Reply to "Original music for "Much Ado"" posted by Bildo on March 24, 1997 at 08:08:29
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