Pasticcio and temperance plays in America : Il Pesceballo (1862) and Ten nights in a bar-room (1890) / edited by Dale Cockrell.

Other author Cockrell, Dale editor.
Other author Child, Francis James, 1825-1986.
Other author Pratt, William W.
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoNew York : Garland, 1994.
Description1 vocal score (xxv, 181 pages) ; 29 cm.
Subjects
Operas--Vocal scores with piano.
Operas--Librettos.
Incidental music--Vocal scores with piano.

Variant title Pesceballo
Variant title Ten nights in a bar-room
Variant title 10 nights in a bar-room
SeriesNineteenth-century American musical theater ; v. 8
Nineteenth-century American musical theater v. 8. ^A377304
Incomplete content Il pesceballo : La dolce aurora ; Lo! where divinely beaming = Ecco ridente il cielo! [from Barber of Seville / Rossini] ; How with grief no longer bending [from Cindrella] ; The manly heart in love's employment = Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen [from The magic flute / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] ; Deem'd of a fisher's lovely race = Di pescatore iguobile [from Lucrezia Borgia / Donizetti] ; The lay of the one fish ball ; Gentle lady, this my catalogue numbers = Mada mina! il catalogo è questo [Don Juan, or, the libertine punished from Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] ; Warfare! warfare! the hungry wolf glances not with half of our rage on his prey = Guerra! guerra! le galliche selve quante ha querce produ con guerrier [from Norma / V. Bellini] ; O sun doubly rapid, now hast thy uprising = O sole più ratto a sorger t'appresta [from Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti] ; With me in Rome = Meco all' altar [from Norma / V. Bellini] ; Listen! Music inviteth us = Senti. La danza invitaci ; Guard thee from all emotion = Guai se ti sfugge un moto [from Lucrezia Borgia / Donizetti] ; Joy once more fills my breast = Vieni ah! vieni / arr. Ferdinand [from La favorita / Donizetti] -- Ten nights in a bar-room : Yankee doodle ; Come home, father! / Henry C. Work ; Champagne Charlie is my name / Alfred Lee : Root, hog or die.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, Nineteenth-century American musical theater, SEARCH BY SERIES TITLE OR BY CALL NUMBER: MusicLib M2 .N56 1994.
General noteThe 1st work is a pasticcio with Italian text by Francis James Child based on the Harvard University anecdote and comic ballad "The lay of the one fishball" with music consisting of pre-existing opera excerpts by Donizetti, Rossini, Mozart, and Bellini; the 2nd work is a play by William W. Pratt after the novel by Timothy Shay Arthur, with incidental music consisting principally of popular or traditional American and/or British tunes.
General noteIncludes reprint of the Italian libretto of the 1st work with English translation by James Russell Lowell and with Child's handwritten annotations of the pre-existing arias to which the texts should be set (Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press, 1862).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxiii).
LCCN 94024997
ISBN0815313802

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Music Music Stacks M2 .N56 1994 VOL. 8 ✔ Available