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Study for life : for soprano, electronics and light (1980/2019) / Kaija Saariaho ; text based on T.S. Eliot's The hollow men.
LIBRA M1500.S13 S7 2023
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Saariaho, Kaija, composer.
- Standardized Title:
- Study for life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music theater--Scores.
- Music theater.
- Songs (High voice) with electronics--Scores.
- Songs (High voice) with electronics.
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Musical settings.
- Eliot, T. S.
- Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Music.
- Saariaho, Kaija--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Saariaho, Kaija.
- Genre:
- Art music.
- Music theater.
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Facsimiles.
- Musical settings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (9 unnumbered pages, 13 pages) : illustrations ; 23 x 31 cm
- Distribution:
- London : exclusive distributors: Hal Leonard Europe Limited.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chester Music, [2023]
- Language Note:
- English words; also printed separately as text.
- Staff notation; graphic notation.
- Notes:
- Music theater work; initially composed in 1980 and reconstructed in 2019.
- Electronics realized in score and also includes lighting cues.
- Reproduced from holograph.
- The layout of this score, superimposing Kaija Saariaho's 2019 corrections on her 1980 manuscript, was created by artist Lucia Schmidt according to the composer's instructions.
- Premiered by soprano Marjatta Airas and dancer Irene Naert in the stage direction of Pieta Koskenniemi at the Sibelius Academy in 1981.
- Premiere of the reconstructed version by soprano Tuuli Lindeberg and actor Thomas Kellner in the stage direction of Aleksi Barrière at Finnish National Opera Helsinki in 2022.
- The electronic materials are available for free download online.
- Duration: approximately 18 min.
- Preface by the composer in English.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1414534999
- Publisher Number:
- 5020679007389
- CH88338 Chester Music
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