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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.
- 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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