Conductors John Yaffe and David Daniels have created a one-stop
sourcebook for orchestras, opera companies, conductors, and
librarians who research and/or prepare programs of vocal
excerpts-such as solos, ensembles, and choruses-for concert
performance. In this book, readers will find detailed information
on a vast repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from
operas, operettas, musicals, and oratorios-more than 1,750 excerpts
from 450 parent works. Modeled on Daniels' Orchestral Music, Arias,
Ensembles, & Choruses includes basic historical details about
each parent work as well as extract titles, subtitles, voice types,
keys, durations, locations in the original work (with page numbers
in both full scores and piano-vocal scores), and exact
instrumentation. It also lists the publishers that make available
the orchestral materials for just the excerpt being programmed,
independent of the full parent work. Until now, conductors and
orchestra librarians commonly had to first leaf through full
scores, searching for one elusive three-minute aria after another,
only to then consult multiple publishers' catalogues to compile
crucial information on all the excerpts proposed for a concert or
recording. This book constitutes a single source for finding that
information. In many cases, the individual entries include valuable
insider information on common performance practice, including
start- and stop-points, transpositions, and conventional cuts.
Searching for repertoire is made easy with the detailed title index
and appendixes devoted to ensemble excerpts, all categorized by
personnel (e.g., duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets,
choruses) and language (Czech, English, French, German, Italian,
Latin, Russian). This book is the ideal tool for the working
conductor and orchestral librarian, as well as music program
directors at colleges and conservatories, opera companies, and
symphony orchestras. As of October 2015, a new printing of this
book has occurred to correct errors in the index. A PDF version of
the new index is available to previous purchasers of the volume.
Please contact Rowman & Littlefield's music editor for
assistance.
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