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Casa Guidi : a cycle of five songs for mezzo-soprano and piano

Title: Casa Guidi : a cycle of five songs for mezzo-soprano and piano / Dominick Argento ; text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Author: Argento, Dominick.
Publication: New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1986, c1984.

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Additional Authors

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.

Description

1 vocal score (36 p.); 31 cm.

Uniform Title

Casa Guidi. Vocal score

Alternative Title

Casa Guidi.

Subjects

Note

For mezzo-soprano and orchestra: 3=332 4331 timp, perc(2) pno hrp mandolin str. ; acc. arr. for piano.
"The texts ... are taken directly from letters Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in Florence to her sister, Henrietta, in England between 1846-1859"--p. [2].
Words printed also as text onp. [2-3].
At end: Florence, 17-IX-83.
Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestral Assocation.
First performed at Royce Hall, University of California at Los Angeles, by Frederica Von Stade, mezzo-soprano, and Martin Katz, piano, Jan. 6, 1984.
Duration: ca. 20:00.

Contents

Casa Guidi -- The Italian cook and the English maid -- Robert Browning -- The death of Mr Barrett -- Domesticity.

Call Number

JNG 89-255

OCLC

Author

Argento, Dominick.

Title

Casa Guidi : a cycle of five songs for mezzo-soprano and piano / Dominick Argento ; text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Imprint

New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1986, c1984.

Added Author

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.

Publisher No.

VAB-231 Boosey & Hawkes

Research Call Number

JNG 89-255

AMC M1614 A692 C3