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The fall of the empire : speaking percussionist / Frederic Rzewski.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M1626.R94 F3 2017
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Rzewski, Frederic, composer.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, author.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Musical settings.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Musical settings.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Rzewski, Frederic.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
- Mother Goose--Musical settings.
- Mother Goose.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Musical settings.
- Twain, Mark.
- Rzewski, Frederic--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Monologues with music (Percussion).
- Monologues with music (Saxophone and piano), Arranged--Scores.
- Monologues with music (Saxophone and piano), Arranged.
- Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Monologues (Music)
- Musical settings.
- Arrangements (Music)
- Scores.
- Facsimiles.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (23, 4 pages) ; 22 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lebanon, NH : Frog Peak Music, [2017?]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- English words.
- Contents:
- The fall of the empire. Prolog : for seed pod with voice / text: Thomas Jefferson ; Act 1. Angel shoot : for vibraphone ; Act 2. Monsters : for bass drum, tubular bell, & radio / text: Dickens (The chimes) ; Act 3. Three sons : for tubular bells / text: Mother Goose ; Act 4. Global warming : for any four sounds ; Act 5. The ground : for any five objects ; Act 6. Sacrifice : for glockenspiel ; Act 7. Sabbath, from "Shem's diary" : for solo speaking percussionist / text: Mark Twain, Papers of the Adam family
- Fall of the Empire. Act 1. Angel shoot : for soprano saxophone & piano.
- Notes:
- For speaking percussionist (seed pod, vibraphone, bass drum, tubular bells, radio, found objects, unspecified instruments); Act 1. arranged for soprano saxophone & piano with narration (presumably by pianist).
- Composed 2007.
- Dedicated to Allen Otte; arrangement of Act 1 dedicated to John Sampen and Marilyn Shrude.
- Reproduced from holograph.
- Publication date from vendor record.
- Contains:
- Container of: Rzewski, Frederic. Fall of the empire.
- Container of: Rzewski, Frederic. Fall of the empire. Angel shoot; arranged.
- OCLC:
- 1022943628
- Publisher Number:
- Rze64 Frog Peak Music
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