Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral
works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English
text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to
Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of
the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions,
availability of performing materials, performance issues,
discography, and bibliographies of the composer and the work. Based
upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of
potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of
difficulty for both choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles
are described. The forty-nine composers represented include Samuel
Barber, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Henry Cowell, Frederick
Delius, R. Nathaniel Dett, Gerald Finzi, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris,
Paul Hindemith, Ulysses Kay, Constant Lambert, Peter Mennin,
Gunther Schuller, William Schumann, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan
Williams, William Walton, and Healey Willan. Written as a field
guide for conductors and anyone else involved in programming
concerts for choir and orchestra, this text should prove a useful
source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal
preparation. Cloth edition first published in 1994.
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