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The Corsican Brothers and the Legacy of its Tremulous Ghost Melody
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The Corsican Brothers and the Legacy of its Tremulous Ghost Melody
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14 measures
21 measures
16 measures, ad lib repeat (the ghost melody)
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Example 1: The Corsican Brothers, music no. 13, beginning; piano score prepared from
orchestra parts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
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