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 the Chapel were primarily choristers, it is not surprising that music played a considerable part in the entertainment provided. Musical interludes were given between the acts, and Gerschow records a preliminary concert of an hour in length before the play began at the Blackfriars in 1602. Sometimes also a boy came forward and danced between the acts. At Paul's there was at the back of the stage a 'musick tree', which apparently rose out of a 'canopie' and bore a 'musick house' on either side of it. or Faery Chappell' 'Here they shutt both into the Canopie Fane or Trophey'; Cuck Queenes and Cuckolds Errants, prol. by Tarlton, 'standing at entrance of the doore and right vnder the Beame I think Graves, 14, rightly explains 'Trophey' as 'arch', on the analogy of its use for a triumphal arch in Dekker, Coronation Pageant (1603). The only other use of 'canopy' for a structural part of a theatre seems to be in Sophonisba, iv. 1, 'Play softly within the canopy' 'Syphax hasteneth within the canopy, as to Sophonisba's bed'. This is a Blackfriars play, but it might conceivably have been written for Paul's.]