Vocal
SKU:
HL.49002642
Vocal
Score. Composed by
Sir Michael Tippett. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Piano
reduction. Composed
1966-1970. 318 pages.
Duration 80'. Schott
Music #ED11075. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49002642).
ISBN
9790220107672. UPC:
073999347685.
8.25x11.75x0.832 inches.
English.
A house,
too, can be a
battlefield, and a garden
a wilderness. The house
here belongs to Faber and
Thea: middle-class,
middle-aged, probably
more than middle-income
and in a mid-matrimonial
rut of mutual
laissez-faire. Also in
the house is their young
ward Flora, to whom Faber
has been making sexual
advances. And there are
visitors. Thea's sister
Denise is taking a break
from other distant
battlefields, where she
is engaged in the
struggle against
oppression. A black
writer, Mel, is here as
well with his white lover
Dov, a musician: the
first homosexual couple
to be 'out' on the
operatic stage.These
people's
entanglementswith each
other but also, and more
importantly, within
themselveshave to be
addressed, as in
Tippett's first opera.
But this time the Mozart
model is Cosi fan tutte,
and the lessons of myth
are clothed in the
language of psychiatry,
as practised by Mangus,
the Don Alfonso who may
not be as much in control
as he would hope. In the
last act he stages a
performance of The
Tempest, which comes
adrift. Perhaps more has
been achieved in the
middle act, a swirl of
short scenes ending in an
exchange of songs between
Flora and Dovan exchange,
too, of homages to
Schubert and the blues,
both held in the magic of
this lustrous score.(Paul
Griffiths)
2
(2pic).1.ca.Ebcl.2 (2:
bcl).1.cbn-4.4.2.1-timp.3
perc (s.d., t.d., b.d.,
jazz kit, cym., sus.cym.,
w.bl., t.bl., tamb.,
casts., wh., metal bar or
heavy triangle, tam-tam,
xyl., vib., glock.,
claves, small
rattle)-hp.cel.pno.egtr/e
hpd-str
Reduced
version:
1 (pic).1
(ca).1 (Ebcl, bcl).1
(cbn)-3.2.2.0-2perc
(timp., t.d., jazz kit,
cym., t.bl., tamb.,
casts., metal bar or
heavy tri., tam-tam,
vib., glock., tub.bells,
cl., rattle)-hp.pno
(cel).egtr-str: 3 vns (3:
va).va.vc.db.
The Rattle Battle
