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Catalogue raisonné as memoir :

(Number (ISBN

0816645051

(Number (ISBN

0816696888

(Number (ISBN

9780816645053

(Number (ISBN

9780816696888

Erroneous ISBN

0816645051

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b770232

Title Proper

Catalogue raisonné as memoir :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a composer's life /

First Statement of Responsibility

Dominick Argento.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Minneapolis :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Minnesota Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

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Includes index.

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Discography: pages 211-216.

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Songs about Spring -- Sicilian limes -- Divertimento for piano and strings -- The resurrection of Don Juan -- Ode to the west wind -- String quartet -- The boor -- Six Elizabethan songs -- Colonel Jonathan the saint -- Christopher Sly -- The masque of angels -- Royal invitation, or homage to the Queen of Tonga -- Variations for orchestra (the mask of night) -- The revelation of Saint John the divine -- The shoemakers' holiday -- Letters from composers -- A nation of cowslips -- Bravo Mozart! -- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A ring of time -- Jonah and the whale -- To be sung upon the water -- A water bird talk -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf -- The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In praise of music -- Miss Havisham's fire -- A thanksgiving to God, for his house -- Let all the world in every corner sing -- Miss Havisham's wedding night -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Fire variations -- I hate and I love (Odi et Amo) -- The Andrée exposition -- Prelude for Easter dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casonova's homecoming -- Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for clarinet and orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi) -- The aspern papers -- Easter day -- The angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone sang -- The dream of Valentino -- To God "in memoriam M.B. 1994" -- Valentino dances -- Spirituals and Swedish chorales -- Miss Havisham's fire (revised) -- Valse triste -- Walden pond -- A few words about Chekhov -- Reverie (reflections on a hymn tune) -- Miss manners on music -- The vision -- The Bremen town musicians -- Sonnet 64 (in memoriam 9/11/01) -- Orpheus -- From a composer's journal -- Discography.

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Each chapter of this memoir is based on a composition, surrounded by Dominick Argento's reflections on the period in his life when the piece was written and its opening performance. In a lifetime of compositions, Argento has encouraged audiences to focus on their own hopes and fears. Now he shares his own, illuminating the nature of music and its hold on the imagination.

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JSTOR

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22573/cttbktrm

Title

Catalogue raisonné as memoir.

Argento, Dominick.

Argento, Dominick.

Argento, Dominick.

Argento, Dominick.

Composers-- United States, Biography.

Compositeurs-- États-Unis, Biographies.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Composers & Musicians.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.

Composers.

MUSIC-- Individual Composer & Musician.

United States.

7

BIO-- 004000

BIO000000

MUS-- 050000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Argento, Dominick.

Date of Transaction

20201206162926.0

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[Book]

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