The speed-fingered guitarist Vernon Reid, who's at home playing jazz, metal or funk, has just released an instrumental album with Masque, which includes Leon Gruenbaum on keyboards, Hank Schroy on bass and Marlon Browden on drums.
"I reacquainted myself with 'Masque of the Red Death,' a story which I had always loved," Satta says.
During her brief personal rule Mary, Queen of Scots brought many of the elaborate court activities that she had grown up with at the French court, with balls, masques and celebrations, designed to illustrate the resurgence of the monarchy and to facilitate national unity.
Sullivan's association with works for voice and orchestra began with The Masque at Kenilworth Birminghamm Festival, 1864).
The definitive edition is The Poems of Thomas Carew, with His Masque "Coelum Britannicum," edited by Rhodes Dunlap (1949).
With the Masque as their incubator, the city's bands began to develop a distinct style that reflected the disaffection of young people in a sprawling, glittery megalopolis.
Working with his masque research, diary entries, notebooks and poems, he eventually focused on five allegorical characters: Love, Virtue, Hope, Time and Death.
Damon Albarn, that extraordinary musical chameleon, has followed the success of Monkey: Journey to the West, with a masque, appropriately in homage to a forgotten figure of the Elizabethan era, Dr John Dee – queen's confidant, cartographer, cryptographer, astronomer and mystic.
The Seagull explicitly investigates the stage with its masque-like opening play ("avant garde or what?" cries a sceptical spectator), its over-the-top actress and its piercing study of authorial self-obsession.
In 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley commemorated the Peterloo massacre with The Masque of Anarchy, an excoriation of the government of the day, and a call to arms for a new form of politics.
