[Dixielandjazz] Re: Shakespeare's Axe - he must have been an early tubist!

[david richoux]

Well, since the tuba wasn't invented then we have to look to it's=20
ancestor the Serpent which was probably invented at around the time of=20=

Shakespeare (see more at http://www.contrabass.com/pages/serpent.html )

"He's speaking now, or murmuring--Where's my serpent of old Nile?"=20
(ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA)

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
  Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?  (ROMEO AND JULIET)

"He is in league with you as was his serpent ..." and King Hamlet came=20=

to inform his son he was "stung by a serpent" and the "serpent that did=20=

sting [his] life/now wears his crown"  and "Tis given out that,=20
sleeping in my orchard,
  A serpent stung me"  (HAMLET)

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it." and
"There the grown serpent lies=94  (MACBETH)

"And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Which hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous" (Julius Caesar )

What!  would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0- The Merchant of Venice

hat dare as well answer a man indeed
  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. (Much Ado =
About Nothing)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
  To have a thankless child!   and
Look'd blank upon me; struck me with her tongue,
  Most serpent-like, upon the very heart: (KING LEAR)

Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,
          And being set, I'll smother thee with kisses  (VENUS AND=20
ADONIS)

Who sees the lurking serpent steps aside... (The Rape of Lucrece)

(and since he could have written Shakespeare's stuff anyway ;-)
Now I will show myself
  =A0=A0To have more of the serpent than the dove;
  =A0=A0=A0=A0That is--more knave than fool.
  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0- Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

Now to scape the serpent's tongue,
  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0We will make amends ere long;
  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Else the Puck a liar call.
  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0So, good night unto you all. ( A =
Midsummer Night's Dream)


anyway, it is amazing what you can  find with two words and a Google=20
Search ;-)

Dave Richoux (who still cannot play a Serpent worth a damn - it is a=20
horrible instrument and I am glad it is obsolete!)

BTW: The  name Shake-spear is not the name of any person but is=A0a=20
"nom-de-plume" derived from the Greek goddess Pallas Athene, who in=20
statuary art is depicted=A0 as  holding a spear striking at a=20
serpent...http://www.sirbacon.org/Sonnet/intro.html

=A0
On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 20:16 US/Pacific, Stephen Barbone wrote:

> Now, that's jazz.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
> Bill Gunter wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 'Twas noted:
>>
>>> `William Shakespeare Jazz festiavl `
>>>
>>> What instrument did he play?
>>
>> He played the heart . . .
>>
>> "If music be the food of love, play on!" (first line of "Twelfth=20
>> Night" --
>>
>> Respectfully submitted,
>>
>> Bill "What light thru yonder window breaks?" Gunter
>> jazzboard at hotmail.com
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