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UCLA Contemporary Music Score Collection Title Hamlet (Act III, Scene 4) Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27b9v6f3 Author Ramirez, Daniel Aaron Publication Date 2020 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California

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UCLAContemporary Music Score Collection

TitleHamlet (Act III, Scene 4)

Permalinkhttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/27b9v6f3

AuthorRamirez, Daniel Aaron

Publication Date2020

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HamletIncidental Music

music by Daniel Aaron Ramirez

For performance information contact:

[email protected]

DanielAaronRamirez.com

©2016, Daniel Aaron Ramirez

play by William Shakespeare

HAMLETACT III SCENE 4

Incidental music to William Shakespeare's

composed by

Daniel Aaron Ramirez

Instrumentation

Clarinet in BbPianoViolin*Actor

* Piece may be performed with or without an actor.

Program NotesHamlet

Act III Scene 4(segment of incidental music to Hamlet)

Act III, Scene 4 is a pivotal scene on which the play hinges, and is in some ways Hamlet in a nutshell. It includes a tense confrontation with Hamlet’s mother, the impulsive killing of foolish Polonius (a mistake that seals Hamlet’s fate), and a visitation from a Ghost.

The instrumentation takes it’s cue from the suite version of L’histoire du Soldat and begins with an introduction that captures Hamlet’s frantic energy. We then move from inquisitorial probing to pointed action. It ends with an unsettling sweet melody expressing the affection between Hamlet and Gertrude while Polonius’s dead body lay only feet away.

Hamlet is a play about action and thought. In Hamlet, mockery and sarcasm hide sincerity and vulnerability while heroism is mirrored by clumsy absurdity. It seems to me such a perfect analogy for our time and for music, particularly composing – caught in-between thought and action.

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HamletFull Score

Act 3 Scene 4Overture

play by William Shakespeare

†Note to Actor: During sections where words and music occur simultaneously the only requirement is that they begin together. The alignment of music and words is approximate. The pacing and rhythm of delivery is entirely up to the discretion of the actor.

music by Daniel Aaron Ramirez

©2016, Daniel Aaron Ramirez

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5HamletAct 3, Scene 4

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6 HamletAct 3, Scene 4

POLONIUS: 'A will come straight. Look you lay home to him: Tell him his pranks have been too broad

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7HamletAct 3, Scene 4

POLONIUS: to bear with, and that your grace hath screened and stood between much heat and him.

POLONIUS: I'll silence me even here. Pray you be round with him.

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8 HamletAct 3, Scene 4

QUEEN: I'll warrant you, fear me not. Withdraw, I hear him coming.HAMLET: [without] Mother, mother, mother!

Enter HAMLET

HAMLET Now, mother, what's the matter?QUEEN Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended.QUEEN Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.QUEEN Why, how now, Hamlet?HAMLET What's the matter now?QUEEN Have you forgot me?HAMLET No, by the rood, not so. You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife, And, would it were not so, you are my mother.QUEEN Nay then, I'll set those to you that can speak.HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.QUEEN What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!POLONIUS [behind the arras] What, ho! Help, help, help!

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9HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET: [draws] How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead.

[He makes a pass through the arras]

POLONIUS: [falls] O, I am slain!

QUEEN: O me, what hast thou done?

HAMLET: Nay, I know not.Is it the King? [He lifts up the arras and discovers Polonius, dead]

QUEEN: O what a rash and bloody deed is this!

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HAMLET:A bloody deed. Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a King, and marry with his brother

QUEEN: As kill a King?

HAMLET: [To Polonius] Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune: Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.

HAMLET: Ay, lady, it was my word.

11HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET [To Queen] Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down, And let me wring your heart: for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff, If damned custom have not brassed it so That it be proof and bulwark against sense.QUEEN What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me?HAMLET Look here, upon this picture, and on this; The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow. This was your husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Would you step from this to this? What devil was't That thus hat cozened you at hoodman-blind? O shame, where is thy blush?QUEEN O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.HAMLET Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty –QUEEN O speak to me no more. These words like daggers enter in mine ears. No more, sweet Hamlet.HAMLET A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a Vice of kings, A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precioius diadem stole And put in his pocket –QUEEN No more.HAMLET A king of shreds and patches –

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HAMLET: Save me and hover o'er me with your wings, You heavenly guards! – What would your gracious figure?

QUEEN: Alas, he's mad.

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13HamletAct 3, Scene 4

GHOST: Do not forget! this visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.But look, amazement on thy mother sits.

GHOST: O step between her and her fighting soul; Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. Speak to her Hamlet.

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14 HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET How is it with you, lady?

QUEEN Alas, how is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy, And with th'incorporal air do hold discourse? O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper Sprinkle cool patience. Wereon do you look?

HAMLET: On him! On him!Do you see nothing there?

QUEEN:Nothing at all, yet all that is I see.

HAMLET: Nor did you nothing hear?

QUEEN: No, nothing but ourselves.

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15HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET: Why, look you there! Look how it steals away!My father in his habit as he lived! Look where he goes, even now, out at the portal. [Exit Ghost]

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16 HamletAct 3, Scene 4

QUEEN This is the very coinage of your brain!This bodiless creation ecstasyIs very cunning in.

HAMLET Ecstasy!My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time,And makes as healthful music.

HAMLET: It is not madness that I have uttered.

HAMLET: Bring me to the test and I the matter will re-word, which madness would gambol from.Mother, for love of grace, lay not that flattering unction to your soul, that not your trespass but my madness speaks.

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17HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET: Confess yourself to heaven, repent what's past, avoid what is to come, and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker.

QUEEN: O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

HAMLET:O throw away the worser part of it, and live the purerwith the other half.Good night, but go not to my uncle's bed.

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18 HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET: Assume a virtue if you have it not. For use almost can change the stamp of nature,and either serve the devil, or throw him out with wondrous potency. Once more, good night.

HAMLET: I must be cruel only to be kind. This bad begins, and worse remains behind. One more word, good lady.

QUEEN: What shall I do? HAMLET: Not this by no means that I bid you do:

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19HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET: Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,and let him for a pair of reechy kisses, or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,

HAMLET: make you to ravel all this matter out that I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.

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20 HamletAct 3, Scene 4

QUEEN: Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, and breath of life, I have no life to breathe what thou hast said to me.

HAMLET I must to England, you know that?

QUEEN Alack, I had forgot, 'tis so concluded on.

HAMLET There's letters sealed, and my two school-fellows – Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged – They bear the mandate. They must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery: let it work, For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar, and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon. O, 'tis most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet. This man shall send me packing.

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21HamletAct 3, Scene 4

HAMLET: I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room. Mother, good night indeed. This counsellor is now most still, most secret, and most grave,who was in life a foolish prating knave.

HAMLET: Come. sir, to draw toward an end with you. Good night, mother.[Exit Hamlet, tugging Polonius]