Incidental music for The merchant of Venice [manuscript], 19th or 20th century.

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Incidental music for The merchant of Venice [manuscript], 19th or 20th century.

Set of orchestral part books consisting of print and manuscript music. The manuscript pieces include an overture, curtain tunes, and entr'acte music. A manuscript keyboard score of an additional work, "Lazy nigger" by Frederick Lewis (signed Boston, Xmas 1911), concludes the conductor/violino I leader part. Printed music consists of a single item at the end of the horn part: a horn part for Three dances from the music to Henry VIII by Edward German.

14 ms. parts ; 33 x 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7791906

Folger Shakespeare Library

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