Item Number: A0.1091749

39 Operatic selections for Baritone and Bass Operatic Voice, Solo Arias or 2 Baritone Duets and Baritone and Bass Duets in English, taken from the stageworks of 21st Century American composer James Nathaniel Holland. Standalone pieces range from moving to dramatic to comedic, including the complete, popular song cycle "A Collection of Sonnets" in range for Baritone. Selections from the Holland operas of Menkaure, On the Wings of the Scarlet Messenger, The Hero and the Damned, The Imaginary Invalid, Canterbury Tales, The Discontented Housewife, The One Upstairs, A Lucky Star, Germain (Baritone arias), O Holy Art (Baritone and Soprano arias arranged for Baritone) and more! Includes: Menkaure's "Hatred Lives in Joondor" for Bass, Germain's "O Truth Where Are You Now" , Songs from the ballets "The Snow Queen" (Waltz of the Roses as Bass solo and Baritone/Bass Duet or Solo) "The Wind in the Willows," (Carol arranged as Duet, and Forget arranged for 2 Baritones, The Incredible Mr. Toad for Bass and When the Toad Came Home for Bass, "Margaret, Margaret" from The Discontented Housewife, (After all, Isn't True Love But) "A Quiet Thing" from the One Upstairs, On the Wings of the Scarlett Messenger's "Think of Me Now and Then" (arranged for Bass) and The Hero and Damned pieces arranged for Baritones and more!.

Digital publication of the piece found in the following print music collection: La donna e mobile - 50 famous opera melodies.

Arrangement of the overture to Franz von Suppé?s operetta "Leichte Kavallerie", premiered in Vienna in 1866.
The original work is set in a 19th-century Austrian village where several love intrigues and the discovery of a father-daughter relationship are accompanied by the arrival of a regiment of hussars.

This arrangement was modified in its edition and violin indications. A very clean piano part was written. Very good edition of the entire score.

The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God. It is during a time of reflection following the encounter that the Méditation is played by the orchestra. In the second scene of Act II, following the Méditation, Thaïs tells Athanaël that she will follow him to the desert.

The piece is in D major and is approximately five minutes long (although there are a number of interpretations that stretch the piece to over six minutes). Massenet may also have written the piece with religious intentions; the tempo marking is Andante religioso, signifying his intention that it should be played religiously (which could mean either strictly in the tempo or literally with religiously-founded emotion) and at walking tempo, or around 60 BPM. The piece opens with a short introduction, with the solo violin quickly entering with the motif. After the violin plays the melody twice, the piece goes into a section marked animato, gradually becoming more and more passionate (Massenet wrote poco a poco appassionato). The climax is reached at a place marked poco piu appassionato (a little more passion) and is then followed by a short cadenza-like passage from the soloist and returns to the main theme. After the theme is played twice, the soloist joins the piano while playing harmonics on the upper register as the piano quietly play below the solo line.