barber samuel words (11 risultati)

Original Wraps. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Black titles on white wraps, 8 pages. Four part Chorus of mixed voices, Opus 16, No. 3. Sheet music.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later printing. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Bumping to the corners and toning, very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "38374c.".

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Later printing. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-inert making six pages. Light bumping to the corners, else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number, 38372. The lyrics to this piece are from a poem in Joyce's collection, *Chamber Music*.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Cancel-price sticker and music shop stamp on the front cover, and light bumping to the corners, else near fine. For high voice and piano. Plate number, 37183. Samuel Barber's compositions have earned a well deserved place within the canon of American music. He is probably best known for his heart-wrenching piece, *Adagio for Strings*. Here, he creates a musical setting for the words of English poet A.E. Housman.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making four pages. Owner name on the front cover, light toning, and light bumping to the corners, very good. For medium voice and piano. Plate number, 39142.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Bifolium separated along the bottom two-thirds of the fold, writing in pen on the top of the front cover, pencil notation throughout, and soiling to the exterior, a complete but good only copy. For low or medium voice and piano. Plate imprint, 39138. Samuel Barber's compositions have earned a well deserved place within the canon of American music. He is probably best known for his heart-wrenching piece, *Adagio for Strings*.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Wrappers. 8vo. Very good copy. G. Schirmer's Edition of Study Scores of Orchestral Works and Chamber Music, No. 69. Choral setting of wartime poem by Stephen Spender. Work premiered in 1945.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Light bumping to the corners, else near fine. For low or medium voice and piano. Plate imprint, 39138. Samuel Barber's compositions have earned a well deserved place within the canon of American music. He is probably best known for his heart-wrenching piece, *Adagio for Strings*.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First trade edition. Quarto. 11pp. Stapled wrappers. Some toning to the wrappers, else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number, 42658. The lyrics for this song were pieced together from various lines over three pages in Joyce's final novel *Finnegans Wake*. Writing for the National Association for the Teachers of Singing, Howard Pollack says, "Samuel Barber's 1947 'Nuvoletta,' the only freestanding song of his maturity, has long been a niche favorite among performers, critics, and listeners," going on to quote James Quillian, "'No matter that the words are somewhat strange; the music is positively captivating and a joy to perform.'".

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The Ambrose Edition of Church Music, No. 78. Fair paperback copy, front coverd shelfworn with small tears, small inscription on front cover, otherwise intact and pages clean. 48pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later printings. A set of three songs for voice and piano. Quartos. Nested bifoliums. Sticker shadow on the front cover of "Sleep Now," some edgewear and two internal tape repairs to "Rain Has Fallen," overall a very good and complete set. The work of two titans of 20th century artistic expression is brought together in this set of three compositions set to poems from Joyce's collection, *Chamber Music.* Just as Joyce continues to be celebrated in the world of literature, Samuel Barber remains an important figure in American music, probably best remembered today for his heartbreaking *Adagio for Strings.*.