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From melodious lay : a Hamlet diffraction for soprano, tenor and orchestra / [music by] Brett Dean ; lib: Shakespeare/Matthew Jocelyn.
LIBRA Folio M1528.D43 F7 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Brett, composer.
- Jocelyn, Matthew, 1958- author.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vocal duets with orchestra--Scores.
- Vocal duets with orchestra.
- Jocelyn, Matthew, 1958---Musical settings.
- Jocelyn, Matthew.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Musical settings.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Genre:
- Songs.
- Art music.
- Musical settings.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (78 pages) ; 46 cm
- Edition:
- Score.
- Rev. 2017/12.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Boosey & Hawkes : Bote & Bock, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English words, also printed as text.
- Staff notation.
- Contents:
- I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd
- O lord, as I was sewing in my closet
- The most beautified Ophelia
- Orchestral interlude
- Get thee to a nunnery
- There is a willow
- Farewell, my dove.
- Contents: I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd
- Notes:
- Includes instrumentation list with instructions for a satellite ensemble placed to the right of the stage.
- Co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3, Zurich Tonhalle, Taiwan Philharmonic, and Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
- Premiered by Allison Bell, Allan Clayton, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, November 1, 2016.
- Text by Matthew Jocelyn after Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Duration: approximately 20 minutes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.
- OCLC:
- 1268541839
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