Scene Outline with Notes on Songs and Music

In this outline, Bernstein makes notes about song placement, participants, and the tone of musical numbers. Here he describes scene I as “Dogged, intense”; scene II includes a “Duet to crowd” by Romeo and Rosalind (his erstwhile girlfriend); scene V opens with a number for Mercutio “with girls”; and before the fight and double murder in scene VII, Bernstein suggests a “happy song” for Romeo.