Hand in hand with fairy grace - Cooke, Benjamin

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"The "alternative" text is spurious; it is not a variant reading of Shakespeare, but a bowdlerization in the high-Victorian manner. It is worth preserving as an example of Novello's anachronistic approach to his sources. In an era when (allegedly) piano legs were covered up because they were suggestive, any hint at sexual intercourse was taboo; even more particularly when associated with fairies. Thus "To the best bride-bed will we,/Which by us shall blessed be;/And the issue there create/Ever shall be fortunate,/So shall all the couples three/Ever true in loving be;" is re-written as "To the children’s bed will we,/Which by us shall blessed be;/And the infants will we fate/Ever to be fortunate,/So shall all these children three/Ever true and happy be;". This prudery appears comical today, but the serious point is that it subverts and traduces Cooke's antiquarian interests. It is a trait commonly found in Victorian editions of earlier settings of Elizabethan and Jacobean texts."

◈ Genre → Glees

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SSATB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 156

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 65806

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2021-09-16

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano I

C4 – F5

Alto

B3 – C5

Tenor

G3 – A4

Bass

G2 – F4

¶Lyrics / Text

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