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The Devil's game : (a brief meditation on "The Devil's verse") : for S.A.T.B. chorus, a cappella / Richard Wernick.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M1531.W4 D4 2014
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Format:
Musical score
Author/Creator:
Wernick, Richard, 1934-2025, composer, writer of added commentary.
Contributor:
New York Virtuoso Singers, sponsoring body, dedicatee.
Standardized Title:
Devil's game
Language:
English
Latin
Subjects (All):
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with percussion.
Genre:
Art music.
Scores.
Physical Description:
1 score (7 pages) ; 27 cm
Other Title:
Brief meditation on "The Devil's verse"
Devil's verse.
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
Place of Publication:
[King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania] : Theodore Presser Company, [2014]
Language Note:
Staff notation.
Latin words, also printed as text.
Notes:
"The text is a palindrome (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni), a rather mysterious one called The Devil's verse"--Program note.
Requires also 3 crotales played by either a soprano or alto chorister.
At end: Haverford, PA 3/2/11.
"Commissioned by and dedicated to The New York Virtuoso Singers Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor"--Title page verso.
Includes piano part for rehearsal only.
Program note by the composer in English.
ISBN:
1598066269
9781598066265
OCLC:
899080838
Publisher Number:
680160618743
312-41871 Theodore Presser Company

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