1 option
Die Harmonie der Sphären / Anton Reicha ; edited by Daniel Obluda.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Reicha, Anton, 1770-1836, composer.
- Kosegarten, Ludwig Gotthard, 1758-1818, author.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of ; 72.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 72
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- Traité de haute composition musicale. Harmonie der Sphären
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Kosegarten, Ludwig Gotthard, 1758-1818--Musical settings.
- Kosegarten, Ludwig Gotthard.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with string orchestra--Scores.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with string orchestra.
- Harmony of the spheres--Songs and music.
- Harmony of the spheres.
- Genre:
- Art music.
- Musical settings.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xii, 42 pages, 3 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2017.
- Language Note:
- German words, by Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, also printed as text with English translation on page xi.
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "Reicha's Die Harmonie der Sphären, a work scored only for eight-part chorus, strings, and timpani, appears at the end of the second volume of Reicha's Traité de haute composition musicale (1826) and was never published or copied elsewhere except in Carl Czerny's translation of the treatise in 1834. The work's most notable characteristic is its use of eight chromatically tuned timpani, divided among four timpanists, which at various points throughout the piece are rolled to produce sustained diatonic triads. These rolled chords not only provide support for the orchestra and choral parts but also serve to illustrate the sonorous motion of the planets and celestial bodies described in the text, taken from a poem by Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Plates
- Die Harmonie der Sphären
- Critical Report.
- Notes:
- For chorus (SSAATTBB), strings, and 8 timpani (4 players).
- Edited from Traité de haute composition musicale, second volume (Paris : Zelter & cie., 1826).
- Includes introduction and critical report.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed November 8, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1079359463
- Publisher Number:
- N072 A-R Editions, Inc.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.