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REPLY1850

Concolinel

By EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. (8. Augustus Square, Regent's Park.)

I have been many years engaged in researches connected with the *original* music of Shakspeare's Plays, but it has not been my good fortune to meet with the air of *Concolinel*. The communication of your correspondent R. is of the greatest interest, and I should be for ever grateful if he would allow me to see the manuscript in question, in order that I might test the *genuineness* of the air "stated, in a recent hand, to be the tune of *Concolinel* mentioned by Shakspeare." This air has double claims on our attention, as its existence, in any shape, is placed amongst the "doubtful" points by…

Topics: Shakespeare's Plays, Original Music, Historical Manuscripts