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Practice in the art of elocution : operina for soprano and piano (1998) / Jack Beeson.
LIBRA M1500.B397 P7 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010, composer, librettist.
- Standardized Title:
- Practice in the art of elocution
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Beeson, Jack.
- Beeson, Jack, 1921-2010.
- Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Music.
- Music theater.
- Songs (High voice) with piano.
- Monologues with music (Piano).
- Genre:
- Music theater.
- Scores.
- Songs.
- Monologues (Music)
- Facsimiles.
- Manuscripts.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (41 pages) ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- Vocal score.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Boosey & Hawkes, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- Notes:
- The work includes songs and spoken word which incorporate writings of François Delsarte and Frances P. Hoyle-Pogle.
- Libretto by the composer is adapted, in part, from the writings of François Desarte and Frances P. Hoyle-Pogle.
- " ... intended for singer-actresses, and accompanists who can act"--Page 1.
- Reproduced from holograph.
- Duration: 30:00.
- Includes performance notes.
- Included are four settings of poems by Rupert Brooke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (together with an anonymous parody), and James Whitcomb Riley: A channel passage ; The Longfellow variations ; When cigarettes to ashes turn ; The lugubrious whing-whang.
- OCLC:
- 1127172286
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