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  • HENRY VIIIby

    William Shakespeare

    INCIDENTAL MUSIC

    Composed by

    ARTHUR SULLIVANArranged from the Orchestral Score by

    BERTHOLD TOURS

  • This Edition Published by Paul Howarth127 Manor Drive

    YorkYO26 5SDENGLAND

    Copyright 2003

  • Contents

    Page

    1. March 1

    2. King Henrys Song (Youth will needs have dalliance.) 10

    3. Graceful Dance 16

    4. Water Music 25

  • Preface

    Sullivan composed incidental music to five Shakespeare plays: The Tempest(1861), The Merchant of Venice (1871), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1874), HenryVIII (1877) and Macbeth (1888).

    Although written as his graduation piece during his final term as a student atthe Leipzig Conservatory and expanded for a concert performance at the CrystalPalace a year later, Sullivan always intended that the first of these should beappropriate for use in a production. Charles Calvert took the opportunity toincorporate some of it into his production of The Tempest at the Palace Theatre,Manchester in 1864. The incidental music to The Merchant of Venice wascommisioned by Calvert to accompany a production of the play at the PrincesTheatre which opened on 19 September 1871 and the incidental music to Henry VIIIfor a production which opened at the Theatre Royal, Manchester on 29 August 1877.

    As would become Sullivans usual practice when writing the operas, he left thecomposition of the four numbers which make up the incidental music to this play, allof which were to be played during the fifth act, until the last minute. In fact, theopening had to be postponed for two days because the music was not ready on time.The production ran until 3 November 1877.

    Perhaps the most interesting section of the score is the song Youth mustneeds have dalliance with its echoes of sixteenth century airs. When the song waspublished separately, the cover bore the inscription Words by Henry VIII, Music byArthur Sullivan, however it is unlikely that the lyric was actually written by themonarch.

    Two weeks after Henry VIII closed in Manchester, The Sorcerer, the third ofSullivans collaborations with W. S. Gilbert opened at the Opra Comique in London.It had no proper overture. Instead, the Graceful Dance from the Henry VIII music,preceded by a short introduction consisting of a few bars of O marvellous illusionfrom that opera served as the overture.

    The piano score was arranged by Berthold Tours and originally published byMetzler in 1879. The full orchestral score was published by the same firm in 1886.

    Paul HowarthYork2003

  • Henry VIIIIncidental Music

    No. 1: March

    Arthur Sullivan

    1

  • Henry VIII

    2

  • Henry VIII

    3

  • Henry VIII

    4

  • Henry VIII

    5

  • Henry VIII

    6

  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

    8

  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

    No. 2: King Henrys Song

    10

  • Henry VIII

    11

  • Henry VIII

    12

  • Henry VIII

    13

  • Henry VIII

    14

  • Henry VIII

    15

  • Henry VIII

    No. 3: Graceful Dance

    16

  • Henry VIII

    17

  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

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  • Henry VIII

    No. 4: Water Music

    25

  • Henry VIII

    26

  • Henry VIII

    27

  • Henry VIII

    28

  • Henry VIII

    29

  • Henry VIII

    30

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