Macbeth

Folger bibliographic ID: 222424
Charteris, R. Annotated catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Folger: 123
Folger call number: FILM Fo. 961
Folger holdings ID: 252496

Theatre copy of full score with incidental music by Richard Leveridge. With cues and names of singers for the Drury Lane production in 1713-1714, and additions showing use at Goodman's Fields Theatre in 1734-1735. The chorus for the end of Act II (in another hand) is at the end of the volume. Scored for voices, orchestra and basso continuo

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

This music was for long attributed to Matthew Locke and even to Henry Purcell. For a discussion of its attribution to Leveridge see The Musical quarterly, XLVII, no. 1 (Jan. 1961), p. 22-40, and Music and Letters, XLV (1964), p. 114-125 Music composed for William D'Avenant's adaptation of Macbeth, with inclusion of songs from Thomas Middleton's The witch This setting now considered to be the work of Richard Leveridge; the widespread misattribution to Matthew Locke began with William Boyce's edition of 1770 (see Winkler, A.E. Music for Macbeth, 2004) Unique to this score, "Put in all these," p.36-37. Different from version in W.b.540 or in Boyce, 1770 P. Hayes - T. Oliphant - W.H. Cummings MS Also available on microfilm and as a digital reproduction

Uniform title: Macbeth
Extended title: Music in Macbeth copied ca. 1725

D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668 Middleton, Thomas, -1627

author: Leveridge, Richard, 1670 or 1671-1758
subject: D'Avenant, William, 1606-1668
subject: Middleton, Thomas, -1627
attributed name: Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 1622-1677
former owner: Hayes, Phil. (Philip), 1738-1797
former owner: Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915
former owner: Oliphant, Thomas, 1799-1873
associated with: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
associated with: Goodman's Fields Theatre