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Forty-eight duets of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
Title:
Forty-eight duets of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
Author:
Prahl, Victor, 1893-1953.
Publication Information:
Boston : E.C. Schirmer, [1970]

©1970
Physical Description:
1 score (200 pages) ; 28 cm
General Note:
"These duets may be sung by any combination of voices which can negotiate the vocal range involved."--Foreword.

"Where foreign language is unfamiliar, or the text is of secondary importance, translations have been provided."--Foreword.

Original or arr. acc. for piano.
Language:
English
Contents:
Ich jauchze mit Schall = Now with rejoicing and laughter ; Wir gehn nun = Let us now away / J.S. Bach -- Constancy ; Sweet power of song ; Where flowers were springing / Beethoven -- Das Meer = The sea ; Phänomen = Life shall be gladdened ; Die Schwestern = The sisters ; So lass uns wandern = We two shall wander / Brahms -- Cantando un di = Singing one day ; Long live son ; Ma sordo è ogn'uno = My song is unheeded ; Sventurato son io = Sadness now fills my soul / Clari -- Come away, Death ; I will lift up mine eyes ; Sweet flowers now are blooming / Cornelius -- Der Schmerz = From the bough ; Where the cuckoo sings / Dvorak -- La Vierge à la crêche = The virgin at the crib / Franck -- Heidenröslein = Rosebud in the heather ; Lullaby / Gade -- Quando no ho più core / Handel -- No fire, nor hot embers / Henschel -- As the star in heav'n are blazing ; Twelve times / Jadassohn -- The angler's song / Lawes -- Fierezza si vaga = O pride, thou art charming / Legrenzi -- Bel tempo che vola = Sweet moment so tender / Lully -- Abendlied = Evening song ; Tulerunt Domninum meum = They have taken away my Lord / Mendelssohn.

(Continued) -- Sweet nymph / Morley -- Ah, perdona al primo = Pardon now to thee / Mozart -- Quando corpus morietur (Stabat Mater) / Pergolesi -- But ere we this perform (Dido and Aeneas) ; Lost is my quiet for ever ; Trip it in a ring ; Turn then thine eyes / Purcell -- The huntsman ; Die Lotosblume = The lotus flower ; O weary soul / Rubinstein -- Pastoral / Saint-Saens -- An den Abendstern = To the evening star ; Intermezzo ; So wahr die Sonne scheinet = As sunlight wakens flowers ; To the nightingale / Schumann -- At sunset (Pique Dame) / Tchaikowsky -- Contentment / Thomas.
Format :
Musical Score