The Tams-Witmark/Wisconsin Collection : music theatre production materials : University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library

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Summary

Production materials arranged by composer, then by uniform title, and within title by manifestation groups. Production materials for a wide variety of secular musical stage works, primarily includi...

Production materials arranged by composer, then by uniform title, and within title by manifestation groups.

Production materials for a wide variety of secular musical stage works, primarily including operas, operettas, musical comedies, burlesques, minstrel shows, and also oratorios and cantatas. Materials represent various manifestations, including full scores, vocal scores, piano scores, chorus scores, orchestra parts, vocal parts, chorus parts, librettos, scripts, promptbooks, dialogue parts, lyrics, chorus texts, and accompanying material such as playbills, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Most of the materials bear generous performance annotations and many bear ownership marks. Although the collection is particularly strong in American materials dating from 1880-1920, it includes both American and European imprints, with many early and rare editions, as well as typescript, mimeographed, engraved, and manuscript materials, among which are some autographs. Unidentified materials are in Box 1B.

Composers generously represented include Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Offenbach, Johann Strauss, Victor Herbert, Reginald De Koven, Gilbert and Sullivan, Suppé, Carl Millöcker, Charles Lecocq, and Edmond Audran.

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