NICHOLAS LANIER: Hero and Leander (Nor com'st thou yet) PDF SCORE

Buy the PDF score here: https://www.earlymusicscores.com/shop... Composed by Nicholas Lanier (c.1588-1666). From British Library, Add. MS 14399, ff.22v-28r. Evelyn Tubb, soprano Anthony Rooley, lute Nicholas Lanier's imitation of the Monteverdian lamento, Hero's Complaint to Leander, in which the syllabic vocal line breaks out, under pressure, into a rare melisma, in which fleeting patterns in the bass suggest Hero's erotic obsession, and dissonant harmonic movement suggests the internal strife of her emotions. As I've noted before, Purcell's contemporary Roger North presented a striking picture of Lanier singing Hero's Complaint to King Charles 1: ‘After his returne he composed a recitativo, which was a poem being the tragedy of Hero and Leander... The King was exceedingly pleased with this pathetick song, and caused Lanneare often to sing it, to a consort attendance, while he stood next, with his hand upon his shoulder. This was the first of the recitativo kind that ever graced the English language.’ This very long scena—an all-night vigil in which Hero evolves from anger at Leander's tardiness to hope as she imagines him swimming across the Hellespont, to despair at discovering his corpse—is almost a miniature opera, and might have been a more promising basis for constructing an English opera than the masque turned out to be. Reference: Albright, D. (2007). Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres (Eastman Studies in Music) (Eastman Studies in Music). United States: University of Rochester Press.