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Suite from The black maskers / Roger Sessions.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 60
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985.
- Standardized Title:
- Black maskers. Suite
- Subjects (All):
- Suites (Orchestra)--Scores.
- Suites (Orchestra).
- Incidental music--Excerpts--Scores.
- Incidental music.
- Genre:
- Suites.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 study score (109 pages) ; 19 cm
- Contained In:
- Eugene Ormandy Collection of Scores. Box 468.
- Other Title:
- The black maskers
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Cos Cob Press : reissued under the auspices of Arrow Music Press, [1932]
- Contents:
- Dance : Scene 1
- Scene : Scene III
- Dirge : Scene IV
- Finale : Scene V.
- Notes:
- For orchestra.
- Duration: 22:00.
- Excerpts from incidental music for the drama by L. Andreyev.
- At end of score: "Cleveland, Ohio - Hadley, Mass. Feb. - June 1923".
- Forms part of: Eugene Ormandy Archive, Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- Local Notes:
- Two copies.
- One copy bears an inscription on the title page from the composer to Eugene Ormandy.
- Both scores marked by Eugene Ormandy for performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra; markings include bowings and doublings. The copy bearing Sessions t.p. inscription also contains cuts marked in blue ink, possibly in the composer's hand.
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