The Recipe (Double, double toil and trouble from Shakespeare's three witches) 3 altos and piano by David Warin Solomons Piano, Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1350423

Three altos performing Shakespeare's chant of the three witches
(from Macbeth), with a quasi-ostinato accompaniment.

The sound sample is electronic, using the clarinet version for the voices


It is suitable for a Shakespeare performance or, more generally, for a Halloween concert.

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd
Thrice and once the hedgepig whin'd
Harper cries: 'Tis time, 'tis time.
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights hast thirty one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.


Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hellbroth boil and bubble.


Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd saltsea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark
Liver of blasphemer too,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.


Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.


The pdf file contains score and parts.