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Additional authors

1. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.

Description

1. 1 vocal score (36 p.); 31 cm.

Uniform title

1. Casa Guidi. Vocal score

Alternative title

1. Casa Guidi.

Subject

1. Songs (Medium voice) with piano
2. Song cycles
3. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 > Musical settings

Contents

1. Casa Guidi -- The Italian cook and the English maid -- Robert Browning -- The death of Mr Barrett -- Domesticity.

Call number

1. JNG 89-255

Note

1. For mezzo-soprano and orchestra: 3=332 4331 timp, perc(2) pno hrp mandolin str. ; acc. arr. for piano.
2. "The texts ... are taken directly from letters Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in Florence to her sister, Henrietta, in England between 1846-1859"--p. [2].
3. Words printed also as text onp. [2-3].
4. At end: Florence, 17-IX-83.
5. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestral Assocation.
6. First performed at Royce Hall, University of California at Los Angeles, by Frederica Von Stade, mezzo-soprano, and Martin Katz, piano, Jan. 6, 1984.
7. Duration: ca. 20:00.

Author

1. Argento, Dominick.

Title

1. Casa Guidi : a cycle of five songs for mezzo-soprano and piano / Dominick Argento ; text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Imprint

1. New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1986, c1984.

Added author

1. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.

Publisher no.

1. VAB-231 Boosey & Hawkes

Research call number

1. JNG 89-255
2. AMC M1614 A692 C3