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Nachal'noe upravlenie Olega = The early reign of Oleg
Title
Nachal'noe upravlenie Olega = The early reign of Oleg / music by Carlo Canobbio, Vasilij Pashkevich, and Giuseppe Sarti for the play by Catherine the Great ; edited by Bella Brover-Lubovsky.
ISBN
9781987200065
9780895798640
Publication
Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 score (xxviii, 453 pages, 10 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
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Notes
Pasticcio ("musical spectacle"--Page xi) in 5 acts. "The genre of the work has been misleadingly defined as 'opera,' 'semi-opera,' 'syncretic work,' or even 'Baroque Gesamtkunstwerk,' among other inaccurate designations"--Page xi.
"[C]onsists primarily of choruses and various orchestral movements ... though the main body of the Greek scene is presented as a melodrama, with spoken dialogue interspersed between musical passage"--Page xiii.
Edited from the 1791 printed orchestral score.
Includes introduction and critical report.
Russian words (Cyrillic and romanized), also printed as text with English translation on pages xix-xxviii. Introduction and commentary in English.
Staff notation.
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Summary
"Nachal'noe upravlenie Olega (The early reign of Oleg), which premiered in 1790 at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg, is a musical spectacle based on the eponymous play by Empress Catherine the Great (1729-96; r. 1762-96). Its music was composed collaboratively by Carlo Canobbio, Vasilij Pashkevich, and Giuseppe Sarti, all of whom were active in and around the Russian court. Recently, this emblematic work has started to attract the interest of cultural historians concerned with Catherine's epoch, though before now it has been only superficially known even among experts. This edition contains the full musical text of Oleg in its original form, in addition to the various contemporary explanatory texts and the rejected chorus composed for the spectacle by Domenico Cimarosa. Its goal is to make this fascinating composition available to modern scholars and performers, and thus to enable its contextualization within late eighteenth-century European culture." -- Provided by publisher.
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Early reign of Oleg
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Print version: Pashkevich, V.A., (Vasiliĭ Alekseevich), approximately 1742-1797. Nachal'noe upravlenie Olega. Nachal'noe upravlenie Olega. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2018.
Format
Music Scores / Online
Language
Russian
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2023
Series
Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era ; 109
Recent researches in Music Online,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Text and translation
Plates
Nachal'noe upravlenie Olega (The early reign of Oleg).Introductory texts ; Act 1 ; Act 2 ; Act 3 ; Act 4 ; Act 5
Critical Report
Appendix 1.Sarti's original "Eclaircissement sur la musique composeþe par [that is, pour] Oleg"
Appendix 2. Russian folk songs quoted in the score
Appendix 3. Cimarosa's rejected chorus.
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