Incidental music for Hamlet [manuscript], ca. 1913.

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Incidental music for Hamlet [manuscript], ca. 1913.

Set of orchestral part books containing both manuscript and printed music. Includes an overture, curtain tunes, trumpet calls, entr'acte music and marches ("Funeral march"). Most of the music is by Frank A. Howson (or arranged by him); also includes music by Adolf Mohr and Niels Gade. The overture, by Gade, exists in printed form in string parts and in manuscript in wind, brass and drum parts. The parts for cornets, trombone, and drums include a separate booklet for stage music.

11 ms. parts ; 14 x 18 cm to 32 x 24 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7670284

Folger Shakespeare Library

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