Byron Hitchcock: >I'm doing a report on Renaissance music and its relation to Shakespearean >plays. If you were to choose one piece of Renaissance music to get >someone's interest, what would it be? The audience is your average high >school class. Thanks. There are compilations of songs from Shakespeare's plays as well music referred to in the plays written by Elizabethan composers: Morley's It was a lover and his lass," "The rain it raineth," and so on. If you go to someplace like www.cdnow.com and put "Shakespeare" in as an album-title argument to the classical search, you will get a lot of hits. The Deller Consort made a classic collection, but check out the collections from Pickett and on Meridian and Dorian as well. Steve Schwartz