| Description |
1 score (xxviii, 453 pages, 10 pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm. |
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score |
| Medium of Performance |
speaker mixed chorus 1 orchestra 1 1 2 |
| Series |
Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era,
0147-0086 ;
109
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Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era ; v. 109.
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| Note |
Pasticcio ("musical spectacle"--Page xi) in 5 acts. "The genre of the work has been misleadingly defined as 'opera,' 'semi-opera,' 'syncretic work,' or even 'Baroque Gesamtkunstwerk,' among other inaccurate designations"--Page xi. |
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"[C]onsists primarily of choruses and various orchestral movements ... though the main body of the Greek scene is presented as a melodrama, with spoken dialogue interspersed between musical passage"--Page xiii. |
| Language |
Staff notation. |
| Note |
Edited from the 1791 printed orchestral score. |
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Includes introduction and critical commentary. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Appendix 1. Sarti's original "Eclaircissement sur la musique composée par [that is, pour] Oleg" -- Appendix 2. Russian folk songs quoted in the score -- Appendix 3. Cimarosa's rejected chorus. |
| Language |
Russian words (Cyrillic and romanized) also printed separately as text with English translation on pages xix-xxviii. |
| Subject |
Oleg, Grand Duke of Kiev, -912 -- Drama.
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Oleg, Grand Duke of Kiev, -912. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Subject |
Incidental music -- Scores.
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Incidental music -- Scores. |
| Genre/Form |
Incidental music.
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Incidental music.
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Scores.
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Scores.
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Operas.
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Operas.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Canobbio, Carlo, 1741-1822, composer.
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Sarti, Giuseppe, 1729-1802, composer.
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, author.
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Brover-Lubovsky, Bella, editor.
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| Added Title |
Early reign of Oleg |
| ISBN |
9780895798640 |
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0895798646 |
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