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Lyrics. / By Oscar Hammerstein II.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML49.H12 H3 1949
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960.
- Standardized Title:
- Lyrics. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--Excerpts--Librettos.
- Songs--Texts.
- Songs.
- Musicals--Excerpts.
- Musicals.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Librettos.
- Excerpts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potts, Edglar L. (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 215 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Manufactured in the United States of America by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 1949.
- Contents:
- Preface by Richard Rodgers
- Notes on lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
- Songs with Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma!, State Fair, Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific
- Songs with Jerome Kern: Show Boat, Music in the Air
- Other songs with Jerome Kern
- Songs with music by Georges Bizet: Carmen Jones
- Songs with Sigmund Romberg.
- Notes:
- Title written in red.
- "I have included in this collection only those lyrics which I wrote alone. This will account for the absence of several well-known songs ... The lyrics for all of these were written in collaboration with Otto Harbach."--Oscar Hammerstein II.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Edgar L. Potts.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "Edgar L. Potts from Mike (?) Xmas 1949".
- Culture Class Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.
- OCLC:
- 248843294
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