Le Testament: Paroles de Villon, 1926 and 1933 performance editions
Pound revised his first opera Le Testament (1923) in 1926 and 1933 to accommodate reduced performing forces. Under pressure from musicians who resisted the mathematical acrobatics required to read and play the 1923 music, he also changed the asymmetrical rhythms to simpler plans based on, respectively, 5/8 and 4/4 meters. The 2008 publication Le Testament, Paroles de Villon is a double volume that contains engraved performance editions for the 1926 and 1933 versions, with libretto, editors' notes, facsimile pages and historical background. Le Testament: Paroles de Villon will be of interest to collectors and followers of twentieth-century opera and poetry, as well as to vocalists, performing groups and ensembles. (Note Amazon's category sheet music - this is an engraved edition, perfect bound, not sheet music.)
OPERAS_SCORESVILLON, FRANCOIS, 1431-1463
RELEASED2008
PUBLISHERSecond Evening Art
LENGTH270
LANGUAGEEN
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.[1] The critic Hugh Kenner said of Pound upon meeting him: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."[2] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
Le Testament: Paroles de Villon, 1926 and 1933 performance editions
by Ezra Pound, François Villon
Pound revised his first opera Le Testament (1923) in 1926 and 1933 to accommodate reduced performing forces. Under pressure from musicians who resisted the mathematical acrobatics required to read and play the 1923 music, he also changed the asymmetrical rhythms to simpler plans based on, respectively, 5/8 and 4/4 meters. The 2008 publication Le Testament, Paroles de Villon is a double volume that contains engraved performance editions for the 1926 and 1933 versions, with libretto, editors' notes, facsimile pages and historical background. Le Testament: Paroles de Villon will be of interest to collectors and followers of twentieth-century opera and poetry, as well as to vocalists, performing groups and ensembles. (Note Amazon's category sheet music - this is an engraved edition, perfect bound, not sheet music.)
OPERAS_SCORESVILLON, FRANCOIS, 1431-1463
RELEASED2008
PUBLISHERSecond Evening Art
LENGTH270
LANGUAGEEN
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.[1] The critic Hugh Kenner said of Pound upon meeting him: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."[2] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
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