Le bœuf sur le toit : for piano four hands, op. 58 : (The Nothing Doing Bar) : (cinema-symphony on South American tunes) / Darius Milhaud ; piano four-hand transcription by the composer.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974.

Standardized Title:

Bœuf sur le toit; arranged

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ballets--Piano scores (4 hands).

Ballets.

Genre:

Ballets (Music)

Scores.

Arrangements (Music)

Physical Description:

1 score (56 pages) : facsimile ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Nothing Doing Bar

Place of Publication:

Mineola, NY : Dover Publications, 2002.

Summary:

In 1920 a farce created and directed by Jean Cocteau, "Le Boeuf sur le toit" ("The Ox on the Roof"), debuted at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris. Its music, originally scored for small orchestra, consisted of popular Brazilian tunes assembled by Darius Milhaud. Later that year, Milhaud published a piano four-hand version of the score subtitled "Cinema-Symphony on South American Tunes." This inexpensive edition of the score, reproduced from an authoritative and hard-to-find source, features a new introduction by Brazilian musicologist Manoel Aranha Correa do Lago. Among do Lago's fascinating insights into the development of this work is a revelation of the tunes' basis not in anonymous folkloric melodies, as previously believed, but in published material from the Brazilian equivalent of Tin Pan Alley. Four-hand players, aficionados of Latin pop, and other music lovers will welcome this vibrant addition to the piano four-hand repertoire.

Notes:

Ballet; originally for orchestra.

Reprint. Originally published: Paris: Les Éditions de la Sirène/Max Eschig, 1920.

Includes the originally-published synopsis by Jean Cocteau (in French, with new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum), and introd. "written specially for this edition" by Manoel Corréa do Lago.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

048641888X :

OCLC:

49265170