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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
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No. 2: King Henrys Song
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No. 3: Graceful Dance
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No. 4: Water Music
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