Philon und Theone /
"This is the first critical edition of Georg Anton Benda's Philon und Theone (1779). Benda is best known for his earlier melodramas Ariadne auf Naxos (1775), Medea (1775), and Pygmalion (1779), which are characterized by instrumental music that alternates and occasionally overlaps declaime...
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| Format: | Musical Score Book |
| Language: | German |
| Language Notes: | German words also printed as text with English translation. |
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Middleton, Wisconsin :
A-R Editions, Inc.,
2020.
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| Series: | Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era ;
v. 115. |
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| Summary: | "This is the first critical edition of Georg Anton Benda's Philon und Theone (1779). Benda is best known for his earlier melodramas Ariadne auf Naxos (1775), Medea (1775), and Pygmalion (1779), which are characterized by instrumental music that alternates and occasionally overlaps declaimed text and pantomime. Indeed, these works have come to define the genre and are considered the archetypal eighteenth-century German melodramas. Yet Benda's little-known Philon und Theone-an orphic story of a voyager searching for his lost beloved-challenges these models, for it embraces not only the instrumental music typical of the genre, but also vocal music. Furthermore, Philon und Theone includes a male, not the typical female, melodramatic protagonist, whose deteriorating cognitive state plays a central role in the story. This one-act work can therefore be understood as among the first "reform" melodramas that have hitherto received little scholarly attention yet can offer fresh insight into the aesthetic intersections of instrumental and vocal traditions around 1800." -- |
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| Item Description: | For soloists, chorus, and orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, and glass harmonica). Includes introduction and critical report in English. A reform melodrama in five numbers. With an introduction, text and translation, plates, and critical report. The music sets a text by an unknown author. This edition is based on a manuscript full score prepared by Johann Ludwig Röllig. |
| Physical Description: | 1 score (xxiv, 166 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1987204565 9781987204568 |