| Description |
1 online resource (lvi, 447 pages, 5 pages of plates) : portrait, facsimiles. |
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notated music ntm rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Music of the United States of America ; 18 |
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Recent researches in American music ; 64 |
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Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573 |
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Music of the United States of America ; 18.
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Recent researches in American music ; 64.
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Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
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| Note |
Opera. |
| Language |
English words. |
| Note |
Due to copyright restrictions, the music of Four Saints in Three Acts (reprinted on pages 3-422 of the print version of this title) has been excluded from the electronic version. Please refer to the print version for the music. |
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Includes preface, historical, and critical notes in English. |
| Summary |
"With music by Virgil Thomson and a libretto by Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts was completed in 1928 but waited almost six years for its first performances. After a week's run in Hartford, Connecticut in February 1934, it moved to New York where--with some sixty performances in six weeks--it became the longest-running opera that Broadway up to that time had experienced. This critical edition by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Charles Fussell features the scenario by Maurice Grosser and is based on the full score that Thomson commissioned from copyist Ben Weber for his 1947-48 revision; it includes the thirty-two-measure orchestral prelude to the act 2 "Dance of the Angels," and it makes comparisons primarily to the manuscript scores held at the Library of Congress and Yale University. The critical apparatus applies as much to the music as to the Stein text, the principal source for which is the 1929 first publication." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed May 31, 2019). |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliography/Literature cited": pages 441-447. |
| Subject |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Musical settings.
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhpHr4vrM87p4BrDHjYP
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Operas -- Scores.
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Opéras -- Partitions.
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Operas -- Scores
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| Genre/Form |
Musical settings
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Operas
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Scores
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Operas.
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Scores.
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Partitions (Musique)
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| Added Author |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, librettist.
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Fussell, Charles, editor.
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Hitchcock, H. Wiley (Hugh Wiley), 1923-2007, editor.
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| Added Title |
4 saints in 3 acts |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Four saints in three acts. Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2008. (OCoLC)233937632 9780895796295 |
| ISBN |
9781987201826 (online) |
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1987201825 (online) |
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9780895796295 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.31022/A064 doi |
| Music No. |
A064 A-R Editions, Inc. |
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