Chapter III: Preface: xi

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiv

PERSONS AND GROUPS xv

CHORUSES AND CAROLS xvi

THE COMMUNITY CHORUS xvii

TIME AND PLACE xvii

QUOTATION FROM ST. MATTHEW xviii

_TEXT OF THE MASQUE IN TWELVE ACTIONS_

I. “WHO KEEPETH WATCH?” 1

II. THE LANTERN IN THE DESERT 9

III. “SOMEBODY IS COMING!” 11

IV. THE LIGHT-CHILD 14

V. “SWORD OF THE WORLD” 21

VI. THE BEFRIENDING 28

VII. THE THREE WISE MEN 31

VIII. “WHICH, O LORD, IS WISEST?” 34

IX. OUTCASTS 44

X. THE WOUNDED PEDLAR 48

XI. THE PERSECUTING HOST 53

XII. THE MORNING STARS 54

_COMMENTARIES_

COMMUNITY PRELUDE 69

COMMUNITY EPILUDE 72

THREE MONOGRAPHS:

I. DRAMATIZING COMMUNITY SONG, BY PERCY MACKAYE 73

II. COMMUNITY MUSIC AND THE COMPOSER, BY ARTHUR FARWELL 77

III. DESIGNS FOR “THE EVERGREEN TREE,” BY ROBERT EDMOND JONES 78

ACTION OF “THE EVERGREEN TREE” 80

ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCERNING MUSIC AND PRODUCTION 81

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_I. SCENES_

DANCE-CAROL OF THE EVERGREEN _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

THE LIGHT-CHILD 16

SWORD OF THE WORLD 24

THE THREE WISE MEN 32

OUTCASTS 44

THE PEDLAR-KING 62

THE MORNING STARS 66

_II. GROUND-PLAN_ 69

_III. COSTUMES_

GNOME, TREE, ELF 78

BEAR, WOLF, LION 78

JOSEPH, MARY, SHEPHERDS 78

HOST, HEROD, CAPTAIN 78

BELSHASAR, CASPAR, MELCHIOR 78

FOLLOWERS OF BELSHASAR, CASPAR, MELCHIOR 78

SORROW, SONG, DEATH, POVERTY 78

RUTH, CLAUS, CHILDREN, CHORUS B 78

_PERSONS AND GROUPS_

In the Order of their Appearance

PERSONS

ELF
GNOME
TREE
WOLF
BEAR
LION

JOSEPH
MARY (Mute)
SHEPHERD

CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF HEROD
HEROD

BELSHASAR
MELCHIOR
CASPAR

RUTH
CLAUS
SONG (Mute)
SORROW (Mute)
DEATH
POVERTY (Mute)

GROUPS

SHEPHERDS
HOST OF HEROD
FOLLOWERS OF THE THREE KINGS
OUTCASTS: FOLLOWERS OF SONG, SORROW AND POVERTY

For Army Camp productions, in camps where it may not be practicable to have women as acting principals, the two mute female figures, MARY and SONG, may—if necessary—be omitted, and RUTH be acted by some well-skilled youth, as was the custom in Elizabethan days. The part of TREE, in any production, may be acted either by a young woman or by a young man (in small-scale productions preferably by a young woman). ELF and GNOME are preferably acted by children: a girl and a boy, or—if desirable—by two boys. In Chorus A, and in the first Semi-Chorus of the Outcasts, choir boys may, if need be, take the places of women.

_CHORUSES AND CAROLS_

CHORUSES

_First Action_ I. (A,1) Chorus of the Wilderness.
_Fourth Action_ II. (A,2) Light of the World.
_Fourth Action_ III. (A,3) The Star.
_Fifth Action_ IV. (B,1) The Might of Herod.
_Fifth Action_ V. (A,4 B,2) The Wrath of Herod.
_Fifth and Eleventh_ VI. and X. Song of the Persecuting Host.
(B,3 and 4)
_Sixth Action_ VII. and VIII. Glory and Serenity.
(A,5 and 6)
_Ninth Action_ IX. (A,7) Dirge of the Outcasts.
_Twelfth Action_ XI. (A,8 and B,5) Chorus of the Christmas Tree.