The witches' dance from "Macbeth" - Leveridge, Richard

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"An extract from the music for Davenant's play "Macbeth" adapted from Shakespeare. Boyce attributed this music to Matthew Locke, but Grove's Dictionary says it is "almost certainly" by Leveridge. The music is arranged by [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Samuel_Wesley Samuel Wesley]. In Shakespeare's play "Hecate" is female, but other sections of the score suggest the part was intended to be sung by a man."

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre → Arias

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 6/4

♬ Voicing → T

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C2 – G5

♩ Tempo adagietto (66)

◷ Duration ~1 min 32 sec

¶ Language → English

Measures 52

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments Piano

Pages 2

CPDL # 61415

Editor Jonathan Goodliffe

Posted 2020-11-15

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Tenor

D3 – G4

Piano

C2 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

Let's have a dance upon the heath. We gain more life by Duncan's death. Sometimes like brinded cats we shew having no music but our mew to which we dance in some old mill, upon the hopper stone or wheel to some old saw or bardish rhyme where still the mill clack does keep time. Sometimes about a hollow tree around dance we and thither the chirping crickets come and beetles sing in drowsy hum. Sometimes we dance o'er ferns or furze to howls of wolves or barks of curs. Or if with none of these we meet, we dance to th'echoes of our feet.