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