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...troubled by a particular episode in the play that seems to cast doubt on the presence of divine mercy and benevolence. This is the moment in Act 2, Scene 3 when Faustus makes his most serious attempt at repentance. He quarrels with Mephistopheles, the Good Angel (unusually) gets the last word in the debate with the Evil Angel, and Faustus calls out to Christ ‘to save...

...trouble with the police in Houston; breakfast in prison (again); saying goodbye to Miss Rosie. As this suggests, the definitions of verses and choruses provided earlier may need qualification. In Section 1, you read that verses have the same musical material as one another, but different words. This can now be revised: in determining where a verse begins and ends, you...

...troubles seemed so far a-way’). There is another series of short notes that move down towards the start note, with another pause on a longer note (‘now it looks as though they’re here to stay’). The final eight notes of the phrase jump around a bit more, moving up and down before ending on another long note (‘oh, I be-lieve in yes-ter-day’). Figure 8 Even...