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Bizet's Carmen is one of the most famous operas of all time. Love, jealousy, murder, vast choral set pieces, and overwhelming passion combined with a colorful Spanish setting are sure-fire ingredients for a world-wide success. All the most beautiful tunes from this opera - including the Habanera - have been arranged in easy versions. The pretty illustrations by Brigitte Smith, in color throughout, add to the attractiveness of this volume. ... Read more

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Songs include: Beat Out Dat Rhythm On A Drum, Dat's Love (Habanera), Dere's A Cafe On De Corner, Dis Flower, My Joe, Stan' Up An' Fight, You Talk Just Like My Maw. ... Read more

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A complete guide to Bizet's Carmen which includes the Principal Characters in the Opera, the Story Synopsis, a Story Narrative with one-bar music highlight examples, and an essay providing background about the opera and its composer, analysis, and insightful and entertaining commentary. ... Read more

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Mini-sized guide with maxi-helpful information
The Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series is just wonderful; it's like a "CliffNote" of the opera, and extremely informative and educational.Iparticularly like the size; these guides are not cumbersome and fit rightinto my shirt pocket. The ladies will find sufficient room in theirpocketbooks.

The story narrative with the music examples is excellent. Iprefer it to a libretto; indeed, it's a much easier way to follow theessence of the story. The essay is magnificent; very well written, notpedantic, and extremely insightful and comprehensible. I congratulateBurton Fisher for a job very well done and Amazon for making these handy,information-laden booklets available. The Opera Journeys Mini Guide Seriesis a wonderful contribution to opera education and opera appreciation.

Mytip: acquire the entire collection because you will be in easy reach ofsuperbly presented opera guides consisting of story analysis, principalcharacters in the opera, story narrative with music highlights, background,analysis, and commentary.

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The premiere of Daudet's play, L'Arlesienne, with incidental music by Bizet, given at the Theatre du Vaudeville on 30 September 1872, was a devastating event for both playwright and composer and the production was removed from the repertory after 19 performances. The critic Johannes Weber, however, was alert to the quality of Bizet's score and suggested that the composer should excerpt and rescore several pieces for the Concerts populaires where 'the lovely music would be better appreciated than at the Vaudeville'. Bizet must have moved rather quickly to follow Weber's suggestion, for the premiere of the first Arlesienne suite took place only six weeks later at the Concerts populaires on 10 November 1872 and the work in its new abridged form was soon taken up by many other orchestras. Bizet, however, did not turn to preparing a second suite from L'Arlesienne. Some four years after Bizet's death, the success of the first suite may have prompted his original publisher to commission the arrangement of more excerpts from the Arlesienne MS from Bizet's good friend Ernest Guiraud who had earlier written recitatives and put together a ballet for Carmen. ... Read more

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This sheet music was newly engraved from early and authoritative editions.First Line is Agnus Dei! Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere, miserere nobis... ... Read more

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This sheet music was newly engraved from early and authoritative editions.First Line is La fleur que tu m'avais jetee, dons ma prison m'etait restee This flower you threw to me, dear one, in prison lone I treasured still ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : E. F. KalmusPublication date: 0Subjects: OperasNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Your band will love to perform this famous Bizet theme in a playable arrangement by Andrew Balent.The piece is musical enough to use for contest/festival performance yet not too difficult to perform. The tune is familiar enough that everyone in your audi ... Read more