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The anvil : for soprano, bass-baritone, chamber choir, youth choir, chorus and orchestra : an elegy for Peterloo : (2019) / Emily Howard ; text by Michael Symmons Roberts.
LIBRA Folio M1530.H76 A5 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, Emily, 1979- composer.
- Series:
- Peters contemporary library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra--Scores.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
- Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819--Songs and music.
- Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819.
- Genre:
- Art music.
- Scores.
- Songs and music.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (xi, 103 pages) ; 42 cm.
- Edition:
- Full score.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Edition Peters, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- English words, also printed separately as text.
- Contents:
- Weave. Heavy stone harvest ; Pelt of rough turf ; Battered shuttles
- The commissioner for paving
- RISE. Fife drums love command liberty ; A lake of hats ; We walk in communion ; We ask for sustenance and suffrage
- The order comes
- Were we quickened from brick-dust
- Sabres and stabbed
- The field turns inside out
- Some of our cry is their cry
- Now, when you see a blush
- Ghosts conjured from cotton smoke
- Our shibboleth.
- Notes:
- A depiction of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, England.
- Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Manchester International Festival.
- Duration: 40 min.
- Program note and performance notes in English.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.
- OCLC:
- 1127240422
- Publisher Number:
- 9790014133887
- EP 73386 Edition Peters
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