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Sonata mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play : poems
Title:
Sonata mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play : poems
Author:
Dove, Rita.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
231 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Prologues: Bridgetower -- Prologue of the rambling sort. Prodigy: (Re)naissance -- Capriccio -- Friedrich Augustus Bridgetower discovers the purposes of fatherhood -- Lines whispered to a pillow -- Recollection, preempted -- Paris, panting -- What doesn't happen -- Windsor -- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (1) -- Marine Pavilion, Brighthelmston -- Wardrobe lesson -- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (2) -- Seaside concerts -- Disappearance. Bread & butter, turbans & chinoiserie: Hear ye! -- Lesson: adagio -- Black pearl -- Ode to the moon -- Janissary rap -- Concert at Hanover Square -- Pulling the organ stops -- Black Billy Waters, at his pitch -- Haydn, overheard -- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (3) -- Dressing -- African prince sings songs of love -- Abandoned, again -- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (4) -- Transaction -- Undressing -- Ode on a Negress head clock, with eight tunes -- Intermezzo -- Tafelmusik (1) -- Brothers in spring -- Salomon concerts -- Haydn leaves London -- Seduction against exterior pilaster, waning gibbous -- Pretty boy -- New century aubade. Sturm und drang: Petition -- To the continent -- Old world lullaby -- Floating requiem -- Ach, wien -- Ludwig van Beethoven's return to Vienna -- First contact -- Vienna spring -- Polgreen, sight-reading -- Beethoven summons his copyist -- Augarten, 7 AM -- Performer. Volkstheater: a short play for the common man: Georgie Porgie, or A Moor in Vienna. "All is ashes:" Tail tucked -- Rain -- Esterhaza, prodigal -- Home again -- Eroica -- Tafelmusik (2) -- Countess shares confidences over Karneval chocolate -- Andante con Variazioni -- Haydn serenades the Napoleonic Honor Guard -- Regency fete -- Cambridge, Great St. Mary's Church -- Panopticon -- Last Frost Fair. Nomadia: Half-life -- Life in London, now playing at the Adelphi -- Moor with emeralds -- Vanities -- Haydn's head -- Birthday stroll on the Pall Mall -- Staffordshire figurine, 1825 -- Nomadia -- Self-eulogy -- #8 Victory Cottages, Peckham, 1860 -- Witness. Epilogues: Queen's wardrobe keeper -- All that jazz -- Composer's coda -- Haydn's skull -- Name game -- Instrumental -- End, with MapQuest.
Genre:
ISBN:
9780393070088
Format :
Book