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Article: An Annotated Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.(Book review)
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An Annotated Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. By Richard Charteris (Annotated Reference Tools in Music, No. 6.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2005. [xxix, 749 p. ISBN 978-1-57647-115-9. $86.00.] Appendices, indexes.
The collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library includes, according to its website, "materials related to the entire early modern age in the West, from about 1450 to the mid-1700s, and materials related to William Shakespeare and the theater, up to the present day" (http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=506 [accessed 31 May 2007]). Some scholars may not know about the wealth of music housed in ...