The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, in Full Score,9780486421292

The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, in Full Score

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ISBN13: 9780486421292
ISBN10: 0486421295
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-22
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

Widely regarded as one of the distinguished composer's finest works, this oratorio for mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass soli, chorus, and orchestra was written between 1899 and 1900. Elgar based his work on a poem by Cardinal Newman concerning a man facing death and divine judgment. Grove's calls it "an affirmation . . . the first major English work in which the orchestra is as expressive as the voices . . . and the integration of chorus and orchestra is complicated and subtle." Musicians and music lovers will welcome this handsome new edition, reprinted from an authoritative source. Unabridged republication of an authoritative edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Dover Edition vi
The Original Poem and Elgar's Libretto x
Part I
Prelude
1(17)
Jesu, Maria, I am near to death (Gerontius)
18(8)
Kyrie eleison (Chorus)
26(3)
Rouse thee, my fainting soul (Gerontius)
29(2)
Be merciful, be gracious (Chorus)
31(8)
Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus (Gerontius)
39(16)
I can no more, for now it comes again (Gerontius)
55(7)
Rescue him, O Lord (Chorus)
62(4)
Novissima hora est (Gerontius)
66(1)
Proficiscere, anima Christiana (The Priest)
67(2)
Go, in the name of Angles and Archangels (Chorus)
69(11)
Part II
Introduction
79(1)
I went to sleep; and now I am refreshed (The Soul of Gerontius)
80(6)
My work is done (The Angel)
86(4)
All hail, my child and brother, hail! (Dialogue: The Angel and the Soul)
90(13)
Low-born clods of brute earth (Chorus)
103(12)
It is the restless panting of their being (The Angel)
115(2)
The mind bold and independent (Chorus)
117(11)
I see not those false spirits (Dialogue: The Soul and the Angel)
128(3)
Praise to the Holiest in the height (Chorus)
131(9)
The sound is like the rushing of the wind (The Soul)
140(1)
Glory to Him (Chorus)
141(1)
They sing of thy approaching agony (The Angel)
142(1)
But hark! a grand mysterious harmony (The Soul)
143(4)
And now the threshold, as we traverse it (The Angel)
147(3)
Praise to the Holiest in the height (Chorus)
150(26)
Thy judgment now is near (Dialogue: The Angel and the Soul)
176(4)
Jesu! by that shuddering dread which fell on Thee! (The Angel of the Agony)
180(7)
Be merciful, be gracious (Chorus)
187(1)
Praise to His Name! (The Angel)
188(3)
Take me away (The Soul)
191(7)
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge (Chorus)
198(3)
Soft and gently, dearly-ransomed soul (The Angel)
201(2)
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge (Chorus)
203(3)
Praise to the Holiest in the height (Chorus)
206

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