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American Arias for Mezzo-Soprano Voice & Piano (w/online audio access)
| Editor: | Philip Brunelle |
| Instrumentation: | Voice with piano accompaniment |
| Series: | Boosey and Hawkes Voice |
| Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes |
| Item Code: | 48018053 |
| Category: | Print music |
| Description: | The Boosey & Hawkes catalog is one of the greatest treasures of contemporary American vocal literature. This major new series celebrates greatness in American opera, with arias from Carlisle Floyd's <i>Susannah</i>, Stravinsky's <i>The Rake's Progress</i>, John Adams' <i>Nixon in China</i>, Leonard Bernstein's <i>Trouble in Tahiti</i>, Dominick Argento's <i>Postcard from Morocco</i>, and other operas by Argento and Floyd, Jack Beeson, Ned Rorem and other American composers.<br><br><i>American Arias</i> is suitable for professional and college-level singers, ideal for recitals and auditions, and an essential resource for the study of the American opera repertoire. The series presents many arias that have never been published outside of the original complete vocal scores. There are approximately 20 arias per volume. Each collection includes commentary on the operas and arias, and access to online audio files of recorded piano accompaniments. |
Table of Contents
- A Foreign Singer in a Waiting Station (from Postcard from Morocco), No sharps or flats [Argento, Dominick]
- A Simple Song (from Mass), 1 sharp [Bernstein, Leonard]
- Baba's Aria and Monologue (from The Rake's Progress), F major [Stravinsky, Igor]
- Bellino's Aria (from Casanova's Homecoming), No sharps or flats [Argento, Dominick]
- Consuelo's Dream (from I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky), No sharps or flats [Adams, John]
- Estella's Aria (from Miss Hvisham's Fire), No sharps or flats [Argento, Dominick]
- La anunciacion (from El Nino), No sharps or flats [Adams, John]
- Leila's Song: Alone (Again or at Last) (from I Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky), No sharps or flats [Adams, John]
- Ma's Song (from The Tender Land), 3 flats [Copland, Aaron]
- Mother Rainey's Aria: The Wages of Sing (from The Sweet Bye and Bye), No sharps or flats [Beeson, Jack]
- Mrs. Klinghoffer's Aria (The Death of Klinghoffer), No sharps or flats [Adams, John]
- Nazimova's Aria (from The Dream of Valentino), No sharps or flats [Argento, Dominick]
- Rose's Air (The Shoemakers' Holiday), 1 sharp/2 sharps [Argento, Dominick]
- Shaun, do not gob (from The Picnic), No sharps or flats [Cumming, Richard]
- The Norway Aria (from Bertha), 1 flat [Rorem, Ned]
- There is a garden (from Trouble in Tahiti), G minor/G major [Bernstein, Leonard]
- Tina's Aria (from The Aspern Papers), No sharps or flats [Argento, Dominick]
- What a movie! (from Trouble in Tahiti), No sharps or flats/4 flats/3 sharps/1 flat [Bernstein, Leonard]