by William Bay. For all guitars. All styles, class. Level: Intermediate. Book. Method. Size 8.75x11.75. 200 pages. Published by Mel Bay Pub., Inc.

By Various. Arranged by Albert E. Weir. Piano. Size 8.5 X 11. Published by Carl Fischer.

Edited by Jenni Wheeler. For saxophone. Dip In Series. Collection. 152 pages. Published by Wise Publications.

By Edvard Grieg. Edited by Ruth Levine. For Piano. Piano Collection. Masterwork. Level: Intermediate / Early Advanced (grade 4/5/6/6 ). Book. 144 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Mel Bay and William Bay. For Guitar (All). Methods. Modern Guitar Method. All Styles. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 48 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

By William & Mel Bay. For Guitar (All). Methods. Modern Guitar Method. All Styles. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Compact Disc. Size 5.5x5. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Written by Mel Bay. Instructional book for guitar. With instructional text, standard guitar notation and chord names. 48 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: Sp MezT2BarB - 2(picc).2(cor ang).2(Bkl).2(dble bsn) - 3.2.3.0 - timp.perc.(2) - Cel - str - stage music: 2trp.timp.perc)

SKU: BR.EB-9433

A Theatrical Caprice in One Act. Composed by Ferruccio Busoni. Choir; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf. Opera; Music theatre; Early modern; Late-romantic. Piano/Vocal Score. Duration 60'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9433. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9433).

ISBN 9790004189108. 9 x 12 inches. German.

Text by the composerTranslation: engl. (E. J. Dent), ital. (V. Levi), port. (G. de Medeiros)Place and time: Bergamo, around the 18th century.Characters: Ser Matteo del Sarto, master tailor (baritone) - Abbate Cospicuo (baritone) - Dottore Bombasto (bass) - Leandro, Cavaliere (tenor) - Arlecchino (speaking part) - Colombina, Arlecchino's wife (mezzo-soprano) - Annunziata, Matteo's wife - Zwei Sbirren - Ein Karrner - a Donkey - People at the windows (silent parts)The idea behind this work was to combine a major speaking role with a part for a female singer and orchestra in the spirit of the opera buffa. The overall tone is pacifistic and anti-bourgeois. Busoni's inspiration was that of an opera-play in the style of Italian improvised comedy; he wanted types and characters on stage whose varying typology would provide the source of conflict ... The title hero absconds with the young wife of the Dante-reading tailor Matteo. He returns as a false barbarian commander, as a husband who engages in a duel with the suitor Count Leandro, and as a conqueror who announces the moral of the story in the epilogue: how to be able to bow in rags and still retain one's dignity and rights. The piece takes a turn for the absurd when the Abbate, at the sight of Leandro, who is presumed dead, begins to sing a chorale-like song of praise to the donkey of Providence who comes trotting in at that moment. This introduces the most musically refined number in the piece, the quartet, in which Leandro's love aria and his duet with Columbina satirize the attitudes prevalent in Italian opera from Scarlatti to Verdi. Musically, Busoni uses throughout the entire work an idiom of dance-like, blissfully transparent comedy and hides harmonic audacities behind touches of lightness. The orchestral sound radiates an incomparable brightness and buoyant elegance. (Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 1967)

In the appendix, EB 9433 contains the later composed aria Wer siegt? Wer fallt?..

By Mel Bay. For Guitar (All). Method. Modern Guitar Method. All Styles. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 88 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Edited by Amy Appleby. For piano. Format: piano solo book (spiral bound). With fingerings. Baroque, classical period, romantic period and americana. 240 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Music Sales.