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Add MS 27713
- Record Id:
- 040-002031128
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031114
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000117.0x000247
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27713
- Title:
- The overture and music in Shakspeare's 'Comedy of Errors' An opera composed, selected, and arranged by Henry R. Bishop.
- Scope & Content:
- 'Overture and Music in Shakspeare's 'Comedy of Errors. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, December 11th, 1819. The whole composed, selected, and arranged by Henry R. Bishop, 1819.' In score. Mostly autograph. The overture is described as 'selected chiefly from the Airs in Shakspeare's Plays,' viz., 'Hamlet,' 'The Tempest,' 'Macbeth,' 'A Winter's Tale,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'As you like it.' The instruments employed are drums, trumpets, trombones, horns, clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, serpent (serbano), harp, harmonica, and strings. The glees (at ff. 32, 58 and 89), begins 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind,' 'Under the Greenwood Tree,' and When icicles hang,' are adapted from [Thomas Augustine] Arne; and the duet (f. 43), 'Tell me, where is Fancy bred,' from Sir J. Stevenson. Characters: — Luciana, Antipholis of Syracuse, Antipholis of Ephesus, Cerimon, Balthazar, Ctesiphon, Adriana, and Chares or Escares.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031114
040-002031128 - Is part of:
- Add MS 27700-27729 : Operatic compositions of Sir Henry Rowley
Add MS 27713 : The overture and music in Shakspeare's 'Comedy of Errors' An opera composed, selected, and arranged by Henry R. Bishop. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002031114[0014]/040-002031128
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 27700-27729
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (139 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1819
- End Date:
- 1819
- Date Range:
- 1819
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper. Oblong Folio.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Shakespeare, William, of Add MS 18204
- Subjects:
- Operas