Shakespeare and Music
"Cheerful Ayres or Ballads, first composed.for one single voice, and since set for three voices," Oxford, 1660.
A Jack Wilson played Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing
Folio 1623 (Act ii sc 3.) the stage direction is "Enter Prince, Leonato, Claudio, and Jack Wilson"
There was a Doctor John Wilson, Professor of Musick, Oxford in 1644
Born 1594 in Feversham, Kent
1626 was a Gentleman of the Royal Chapel (same time Musician in ordinary to Charles I) age 32
1644 became dr at oxford
Dr would have been ten-ish in 1603/4 when Measure for Measure was written (Take O take those lips away)
Stage direction is "Enter Mariana and Boy singing"
Much Ado performed in late 1599/early 1600 so definitely DrWilson age 5ish didn't play Balthazar originally! But a Wilson played Balthazar in at some point before the 1623 folio. Dr Wilson would have been 29 in 1623
In "Cheerful Ayres or Ballads, first composed.for one single voice, and since set for three voices," Oxford, 1660." Dr Wilson writes "some of these ayres were originally composed by those whose names are affixed to them, but are here placed as being new set by the author of the rest," - I BELIEVE he means the three-part harmony rather than that he substantially altered the core tune
"Where the bee sucks" and "Full Fathom Five" [Tempest] have appended to the R Johnson. Yay!
"Lawn As White As Driven Snow" [Winter's Tale` 1] has "John Wilson Attached (and if he DOES credit Johnson, why would he "steal" the Winter's Tale? Winter's Tale was written about 1610 or 1611 when DrWilson would have been 16/17ish)
Robert Johnson
1607
http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-9403977
Music
http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-248488
http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhle/001/shakespearesongs.htm
http://archive.org/details/whowasjackwilso00rimbgoog
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Johnson,_Robert_%28fl.1626%29_%28DNB00%29
http://www.chandos.net/pdf/SDL%20409.pdf
http://books.google.ie/books?id=TqP1ojgrON0C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=john+wilson+shakespeare+-dover&source=bl&ots=xyQCvHwj2F&sig=K3hB6N1oYzEWyBuYGi0oGC1BLLo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hTiOUYWOFsbb7Abv6IAQ&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=john%20wilson%20shakespeare%20-dover&f=false
http://books.google.ie/books?id=zWbCXqsyDN4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.sonusantiqva.org/web/i/L/CamerataLondon/1990ShakespeareMusicke.html
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/popular-music-olden-times-1/
A Jack Wilson played Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing
Folio 1623 (Act ii sc 3.) the stage direction is "Enter Prince, Leonato, Claudio, and Jack Wilson"
There was a Doctor John Wilson, Professor of Musick, Oxford in 1644
Born 1594 in Feversham, Kent
1626 was a Gentleman of the Royal Chapel (same time Musician in ordinary to Charles I) age 32
1644 became dr at oxford
Dr would have been ten-ish in 1603/4 when Measure for Measure was written (Take O take those lips away)
Stage direction is "Enter Mariana and Boy singing"
Much Ado performed in late 1599/early 1600 so definitely DrWilson age 5ish didn't play Balthazar originally! But a Wilson played Balthazar in at some point before the 1623 folio. Dr Wilson would have been 29 in 1623
In "Cheerful Ayres or Ballads, first composed.for one single voice, and since set for three voices," Oxford, 1660." Dr Wilson writes "some of these ayres were originally composed by those whose names are affixed to them, but are here placed as being new set by the author of the rest," - I BELIEVE he means the three-part harmony rather than that he substantially altered the core tune
"Where the bee sucks" and "Full Fathom Five" [Tempest] have appended to the R Johnson. Yay!
"Lawn As White As Driven Snow" [Winter's Tale` 1] has "John Wilson Attached (and if he DOES credit Johnson, why would he "steal" the Winter's Tale? Winter's Tale was written about 1610 or 1611 when DrWilson would have been 16/17ish)
Robert Johnson
1607
http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-9403977
Music
http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-248488
http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhle/001/shakespearesongs.htm
http://archive.org/details/whowasjackwilso00rimbgoog
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Johnson,_Robert_%28fl.1626%29_%28DNB00%29
http://www.chandos.net/pdf/SDL%20409.pdf
http://books.google.ie/books?id=TqP1ojgrON0C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=john+wilson+shakespeare+-dover&source=bl&ots=xyQCvHwj2F&sig=K3hB6N1oYzEWyBuYGi0oGC1BLLo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hTiOUYWOFsbb7Abv6IAQ&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=john%20wilson%20shakespeare%20-dover&f=false
http://books.google.ie/books?id=zWbCXqsyDN4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.sonusantiqva.org/web/i/L/CamerataLondon/1990ShakespeareMusicke.html
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/popular-music-olden-times-1/