"Music to hear": the scope of Shakespeare's musical imagery -- "By the sweet power of music": consonance and harmony -- "And doleful dumps the mind oppress": passionate words -- "A delightful measure or a dance": dance music -- "Braying trumpets and loud churlish drums": the music of war -- "A rhyme is but a ballad": popular song -- "Suppose the singing birds musicians": birdsong -- "Orpheus with his lute": symbolic persons -- "Gamut I am, the ground of all accord": music theory and pedagogy -- "A thousand twangling instruments": art and country instruments -- "A swanlike end, fading in music".