- Title
- Measure for Measure
- Availability
- Unpublished
- Category
- Incidental Music
- Instrumentation
- 2hn.2tpt-2perc-tack piano-boy soprano soloist
- Publisher
- Manuscript
- Year Composed
- 1956
- Date Composed
- June 1956
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- T14
- Meckna Number
- W341
- Notes
Play by William Shakespeare
Directed by John Houseman for the American Shakespeare Festival Theater, Stratford, CT
- Related Persons
- William Shakespeare (Playwright)
- John Houseman (Director)
- Related Works
Shakespeare Songs - Related Works
Shakespeare Songs (1956-57; W139) for voice and piano including member works:
1. Was This Fair Face the Cause? (from "All's Well That Ends Well")
2. Take, O Take Those Lips Away (from incidental music to "Measure for Measure"; 1956; See W341)
3. Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred (from incidental music to "The Merchant of Venice"; 1957; See W343)
4. Pardon, Goddess of the Night (from incidental music to "Much Ado About Nothing"; 1957; See W344)
5. Sigh No More, Ladies (from incidental music to "Much Ado About Nothing"; 1957; See W344)
Each member work also published in both "Collected Songs for High Voice" and "Collected Songs for Low Voice"