Research Catalog

Title

Collected song cycles / Dominick Argento.

Author

Argento, Dominick

Publication

[London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard, c2006.

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Details

Description

1 score (vii, 229 p.) : port.; 31 cm.

Subject

• Songs (Medium voice)
• Songs (Low voice)
• Song cycles
• Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra > Vocal scores with piano

Note

• For voice and piano; 5th song cycle originally for mezzo-soprano and orchestra.
• "The articles in this collection are excerpted ... from: Catalogue raisonné as memoir : a composer's life, by Dominick Argento."
• Includes biographical note on the composer (p. ii-iii), composer's pref. (p. vi-vii), and composer's comments preceding each song cycle.

Contents

Songs about spring. Who knows if the moon's a balloon ; Spring is like a perhaps hand ; In just-spring ; In spring comes ; When faces called flowers float out of the ground -- Six Elizabethan songs. Spring ; Sleep ; Winter ; Dirge ; Diaphenia ; Hymn -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf. The diary ; Anxiety ; Fancy ; Hardy's funeral ; Rome ; War ; Parents ; Last entry -- The Andrée expedition. Part one: In the air: Prologue ; The balloon rises ; Pride and ambition ; Dinner aloft ; The unforeseen problem ; The flight aborted ; Part two: On the ice: Mishap with a sledge ; The king's jubilee ; Illness and drugs ; Hallucinations ; Anna's birthday ; Epilogue ; Final words -- Casa Guidi. Casa Guidi ; The Italian cook and the English maid ; Robert Browning ; The death of Mr. Barrett ; Domesticity -- Miss Manners on music. Prologue ; Manners at a concert ; Manners at the ballet ; Manners for contemporary music ; Manners at a church recital ; Manners at the opera ; Envoi.

Call Number

JMG 07-66

LCCN

• 884088075255
• M051933815
• 9790051933815

OCLC

71383572

Author

Argento, Dominick.

Title

Collected song cycles / Dominick Argento.

Imprint

[London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard, c2006.

Edition

Medium/low voice.

Added Author

Argento, Dominick. Songs about spring.

Argento, Dominick. Elizabethan songs.

Argento, Dominick. From the diary of Virginia Woolf.

Argento, Dominick. Andrée expedition.

Argento, Dominick. Casa Guidi. Vocal score.

Argento, Dominick. Miss Manners on music.

Argento, Dominick. Catalogue raisonné as memoir.

Other Standard Identifier

884088075255

M051933815

9790051933815

Publisher No.

HL48019176 H. Leonard

Research Call Number

JMG 07-66