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Parables : a symphonic oratorio / Robert Aldridge ; text by Herschel Garfein.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M2003.A43 P3 2011
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Aldridge, Robert Livingston, 1954-
- Standardized Title:
- Parables. Vocal score
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Bible.
- Oratorios--Vocal scores with piano.
- Oratorios.
- Bible--Parables--Songs and music.
- Parables.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Oratorios.
- Arrangements (Music)
- Vocal scores.
- Songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 vocal score (xii, 126 pages) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C. F. Peters, [2011]
- Language Note:
- Sung primarily in English with some Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek bits interpolated, with the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek transliterated. Words also printed as text (p. v-xi), with the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek in original script.
- Summary:
- An oratorio in seven parts showing the intertwining of various religious faiths. Commissioned by Douglas and Andrew Reeves for the Topeka Symphony Orchestra. Premiered in May, 2010.
- Contents:
- The God of others
- Ibrahim and Ismail
- Job
- Finitum capax infinitum
- The lilies
- Division
- What waits.
- Notes:
- Orchestral acc. reduced for piano.
- Title also appears in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek.
- Includes preface, notes on text, note on the vocal score, and biographical notes in English.
- Duration: ca. 45:00.
- Publisher's no.: 68292a (on p. [4] of cover: P68292a).
- Pl. no.: 51096.
- OCLC:
- 754086698
- Publisher Number:
- 9790300757476
- M300757476
- 68292a Edition Peters
- P68292a C.F. Peters
- 51096 C.F. Peters
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