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The ballad of Barnaby / W.H. Auden.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Mapcase PR6001.U4 B35 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
- Standardized Title:
- Ballad of Barnaby. Libretto
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liturgical dramas.
- Operas--Juvenile--Librettos.
- Operas.
- Operas--Juvenile.
- Genre:
- Librettos.
- Broadsides -- New York (State) -- 1973.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hoffman, Daniel, 1923- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 broadside : illustrations ; 30 x 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Listen, good people, and you shall hear.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York?]: [publisher not identified], [1973], c1972.
- Notes:
- Libretto for a musical play, realized by Charles Turner from music composed by the students of Wykeham Rise School, Washington, Conn.
- Based on the medieval French legend of "Le jongleur de Notre Dame." Cf. Osborne, C. Auden, p. 290.
- At end of text: Copyright 1969, 1972 by W.H. Auden. Drawings by Edward Gorey.
- Issued for Auden's memorial service at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, Oct. 3, 1973. Cf. Gotham Book Mart. Edward Gorey booklist, spring/summer 1975, no. 184.
- Includes musical directions, but without music.
- Printed on blue-gray paper.
- First line: Listen, good people, and you shall hear.
- OCLC:
- 1658934
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