Arias, Ensembles, & Choruses - An Excerpt Finder for Orchestras

This is a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians programming vocal excerpts for concert performance. Includes detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios -more than 1,500 excerpts from 400 parent works.

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
ARIAS, ENSEMBLES, & CHORUSES
Appendix
Ensembles
Choruses
Languages
Title Index
Publishers and Sources
About the Authors

About the author

John Yaffé is an internationally active conductor of opera and symphonic works. He trained in Los Angeles, New York, and Italy; spent 10 years as a coach and conductor in several European opera houses; and has gone on to lead operatic and orchestral performances throughout the U.S. and in both Western and Eastern Europe.
 
David Daniels is music director of the Warren Symphony and the author of Orchestral Music: A Handbook (Scarecrow, 2005), now in its 4th edition.

Summary

This is a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and librarians programming vocal excerpts for concert performance. Includes detailed information on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios -more than 1,500 excerpts from 400 parent works.

Product details

• Authors: David Daniels, Daniels David, John Yaff', John Yaffe, John Daniels Yaffe, John Yaffé
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781538114599
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1459-9
• No. of pages: 550
• Series: Music Finders; Music Finders
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Conducting, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Orchestras