Abbreviations

Shakespeare’s Works

Ado

 

Much Ado About Nothing

Ant

 

Antony and Cleopatra

AWW

 

All’s Well That Ends Well

AYLI

 

As You Like It

Cor

 

Coriolanus

Cym

 

Cymbeline

Err

 

The Comedy of Errors

Ham

 

Hamlet

1H4

 

The First Part of Henry IV

2H4

 

The Second Part of Henry IV

H5

 

Henry V

1H6

 

The First Part of Henry VI

2H6

 

The Second Part of Henry VI

3H6

 

The Third Part of Henry VI

H8

 

Henry VIII

JC

 

Julius Caesar

Jn

 

King John

LC

 

A Lover’s Complaint

LLL

 

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Lr

 

King Lear

Luc

 

The Rape of Lucrece

Mac

 

Macbeth

MM

 

Measure for Measure

MND

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

MV

 

The Merchant of Venice

Oth

 

Othello

Per

 

Pericles

PhT

 

The Phoenix and Turtle

PP

 

The Passionate Pilgrim

R2

 

Richard II

R3

 

Richard III

Rom

 

Romeo and Juliet

Shr

 

The Taming of the Shrew

Son

 

The Sonnets

TGV

 

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Tim

 

Timon of Athens

Tit

 

Titus Andronicus

Tmp

 

The Tempest

TN

 

Twelfth Night

TNK

 

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Tro

 

Troilus and Cressida

Ven

 

Venus and Adonis

Wiv

 

The Merry Wives of Windsor

WT

 

The Winter’s Tale

Periodicals

EM

 

Early Music

GSJ

 

Galpin Society Journal

JAMS

 

Journal of the American Musicological Society

JEGP

 

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

LSJ

 

Lute Society Journal

MaRDiE

 

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

ML

 

Music and Letters

MQ

 

Musical Quarterly

MP

 

Modern Philology

N&Q

 

Notes and Queries

RD

 

Renaissance Drama

RES

 

Review of English Studies

ShQ

 

Shakespeare Quarterly

ShS

 

Shakespeare Survey

Frequently Cited Works

FWVB

 

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

Grove

 

The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd edn (2001)

Grove Online

 

The Grove Dictionary of Music Online

Introduction

 

Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)

MB

 

Musica Britannica

MLNB

 

My Lady Nevells Booke

OED

 

The Oxford English Dictionary

Miscellaneous

Ed.

 

editor, or edited by

Edn

 

edition

Folio

 

First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (1623)

OSD

 

opening stage direction

Q

 

quarto

Q1 (2, 3 . . .)

 

first (second, third . . .) Quarto

SD

 

stage direction

Tr.

 

translator, or translated by

Books of Ayres and Madrigal Collections Cited

The abbreviations to books of madrigals and ayres in the main text of the Dictionary (e.g. Attey, 1622; Weelkes, 1598) refer to texts (without music) taken from, for the sake of convenience, the collected modern-spelling edition, English Madrigal Verse, eds F. W. Sternfeld and David Greer, 3rd edn, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. The short full titles are listed below.

Alison, Richard, An Howres Recreation in Musicke, apt for Instrumentes and Voyces, 1606.

Attey, John, The First Booke Of Ayres, 1622.

Bartlet, John, A Booke Of Ayres, 1606.

Bateson, Thomas, The first set of English Madrigales, 1604.

——, The Second Set Of Madrigales, 1618.

Bennet, John, Madrigalls To Foure Voyces, 1599.

Byrd, William, Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie, 1588.

——, Songs of sundrie natures, 1589.

——, Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets, 1611.

Campion, Thomas, A Booke of Ayres, 1601 (cf. Rosseter).

——, Two Bookes Of Ayres (The First; The Second), c.1613.

——, The Third and Fourth Booke Of Ayres, c.1617.

Carlton, Richard, Madrigals to Five Voyces, 1601.

Corkine, William, Ayres To Sing and Play To the Lute and Basse Viol, 1610.

——, The Second Booke of Ayres, 1612.

Daniel, John, Songs For The Lute[,] Viol and Voice, 1606.

Dowland, John, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1597.

——, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600.

——, The Third And Last Booke Of Songs Or Aires, 1603.

——, A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612.

Dowland, Robert, A Musicall Banquet, 1610.

East, Michael, Madrigales . . . apt for Viols and voices, 1604.

——, The Second set of Madrigales, 1606.

——, The Third Set Of Bookes, 1610.

——, The Fourth Set of Bookes, 1618.

Ferrabosco, Alfonso, Ayres, 1609.

Ford, Thomas, Musicke Of Sundrie Kindes, 1607.

Gibbons, Orlando, The First Set Of Madrigals, 1612.

Greaves, Thomas, Songes of sundrie kindes, 1604.

Handford, George, Ayres To be sunge to Ye Lute, and Base Vyole, 1609.

Hume, Tobias, The First part of Ayres, 1605.

Jones, Robert, The First Booke Of Songes & Ayres, 1600.

——, The Second Booke of Songs and Ayres, 1601.

——, The First Set Of Madrigals, 1607.

Kirbye, George, The first set Of English Madrigalls, 1597.

Morley, Thomas, Canzonets. Or Little Short Songs To Three Voyces, 1593.

——, The First Book Of Ayres, 1600.

Morley, Thomas (ed.), Madrigales The Triumphes of Oriana, 1601.

Mundy, John, Songs And Psalmes, 1594.

Peerson, Martin, Private Musicke. Or The First Booke of Ayres and Dialogues, 1620.

Pilkington, Francis, The First Booke Of Songs or Ayres, 1605.

——, The First Set Of Madrigals And Pastorals, 1613.

——, The Second Set Of Madrigals, and Pastorals, 1624.

Ravenscroft, Thomas, Pammelia, 1609.

——, Deuteromelia, 1609.

——, Melismata, 1609.

Rosseter, Philip, A Booke of Ayres, 1601. See Campion, 1601.

Tomkins, Thomas, Songs, 1622.

Ward, John, The First Set of English Madrigals, 1613.

Watson, Thomas, The first sett, Of Italian Madrigalls Englished, 1590.

Weelkes, Thomas, Madrigals, 1597.

——, Balletts And Madrigals, 1598.

——, Madrigals Of 5. and 6. parts, 1600.

——, Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites, 1608.

Wilbye, John, The First Set Of English Madrigals, 1598.

——, The Second Set Of Madrigales, 1609.

Youll, Henry, Canzonets To Three Voyces, 1608.