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Author Pelissier, Victor, composer.

Uniform Title Works. Selections; arranged
Title Pelissier's Columbian melodies : music for the New York and Philadelphia theaters / Victor Pelissier ; edited by Karl Kroeger.

Publication Info. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2021.
©1984

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 AR Researches in Music Score  Electronic Score    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xxviii pages, 178 pages of music, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles.
notated music ntm rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Recent researches in American music ; 13-14
Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
Recent researches in American music ; v. 13-14.
Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
Note Principally vocal and instrumental music from theatrical productions; includes independent vocal and instrumental works.
The vocal music has accompaniment arranged for piano; the instrumental music is arranged for piano.
Language Staff notation.
Note "The unicum copy of Pellisier's [sic] Columbian melodies (Philadelphia, 1812) held by the Library of Congress ... has served as the ... source for the music of the present edition"--Page xviii.
Includes introduction and critical commentary.
Summary "Published as a monthly series in 1812, this collection preserves much of the music of Victor Pelissier, a major composer for the New York and Philadelphia theaters between 1794 and 1813. This volume includes songs, dances, and incidental music from his operas, plays, and pantomimes, as well as songs and instrumental music written for the American concert stage. The preface to this edition contains new information on Pelissier's life and his work in the early American theater." -- Provided by publisher.
Note Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed July 27, 2021).
Contents Theatre Music. March [in Adelgitha] / Matthew Gregory Lewis ; Bright orb that rulst th'aethereal way [in Alzuma, or The death of Pizarro] / Arthur Murphy ; Air [in The Archers] ; Dances ; March ; Nuptial procession march ; Overture [in The bridal ring] / Frederick Reynolds ; Believe me, sir [in The deaf lover] / Frederick Pilon ; The bird when summer comes no more ; Few are the joys [in Edwin and Angelina] / Elihu Hubbard Smith ; Fandango [in Gil bas] ; He who his country's liv'ry wears ; When a woman hears the sound of the drum and fife [in Glory of Columbia] / William Dunlap ; The archer's tune ; [I hate to learn the ebb of time] ; What groans shall yonder vallies fill ; At first how humble / William Dunlap ; Allemande [in The Milliners] ; Dance ; My cruel love to danger go ; Negro dance [in Obi, or Three fingered Jack] ; Dances ; Overture ; St. Agnes's well ; [Whither strays my lover] [in The peasant boy] / William Dimond ; Kind Zephyr [in The Sicilian romance] / Henry Siddons ; Ah why on Quebec's bloody plain ; Hope gentle hope ; I laugh I sing [in Sterne's Maria] / William Dunlap ; A dance [in The tale of mystery] / Thomas Holcroft ; Dry those eyes ; Storm [in The tempest] / William Shakespeare ; 'Tis far away o'er yonder plains [in Valentine and Orson] / Thomas Dibden -- Independent vocal music. A glee ; The host that fights for liberty ; A justice I am ; Ode on the passions ; Return oh love! ; The sweet blue-eye's maid -- Independent instrumental music. Allemande ; A grand overture ; Hornpipe in B-flat major ; Hornpipe in C major ; Hornpipe in G major ; March ; Rondo ; Waltz ; A new waltz.
Subject Incidental music -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano.
Incidental music -- Excerpts -- Piano scores.
Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano.
Piano music, Arranged.
Music -- New York (State) -- New York.
Music -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Opéras -- Extraits -- Partitions chant et piano.
Piano, Musique de, arr.
Musique -- New York (État) -- New York.
Musique -- Pennsylvanie -- Philadelphie.
Incidental music -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano
Music
Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano
Piano music, Arranged
New York (State) -- New York https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRvQh7864Jh4rDGBFDWc
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrGtGVd3Pd8KWwFdVqRKd
Genre/Form excerpts.
Arrangements (Music)
Excerpts
Incidental music
Piano scores
Scores
Songs
Vocal scores
Songs.
Incidental music.
Excerpts.
Arrangements (Music)
Vocal scores.
Piano scores.
Scores.
Musique incidente.
Extraits.
Arrangements (Musique)
Partitions de chant.
Partitions de piano.
Partitions (Musique)
Added Author Kroeger, Karl, editor.
Added Title Columbian melodies
Other Form: Print version: Pelissier, Victor. Works. arranged. Pelissier's Columbian melodies. Madison : A-R Editions, 1984. (OCoLC)11831503 9780895791993
ISBN 9781987206449 (online)
1987206444 (online)
9780895791993 (print)
Standard No. 10.31022/A013-14 doi
Music No. A013-14 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)

 
    
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