Choral music and songs / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; introduced and edited by Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Contributor:

Letellier, Robert Ignatius.

Standardized Title:

Songs. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocal music--Scores.

Vocal music.

Vocal music--Texts.

Vocal music--History and criticism.

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Meyerbeer, Giacomo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This second volume of Meyerbeer's non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and later songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. Choral writing-so much part of the operatic tradition, also germane to religious music, and integral to the public music of celebration-is fundamental to the next genre Meyerbeer wrote for, the part-song, a typical German tradition. Meyerbeer's part-songs for male chorus, most of which were provided...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; BUNDESLIED; FREUNDSCHAFT; DEM VATERLANDE; DIE LUSTIGEN JAGERSLEUT; SERENADE: "ADIEU AUX JEUNES MARIES"; DER WANDERER UND DIE GEISTER AN BEETHOVENS GRABE; DAS LIED VOM BLINDEN HESSEN; HIRTENLIED; "PRES DE TOI"; MURILLO 1 (FOR LOW VOICE); MURILLO 2 (FOR HIGH VOICE); "A VENEZIA" (BARCAROLE)

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Historical notes and texts precede score.

ISBN:

1-4438-2598-0

OCLC:

830167588