Identify the Opera Song DICTIONARY OF VOCAL THEMES Sam Morgenstern Harold Barlow

by Harold Barlow

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img{max-width:100%} Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping. We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. For sale is A Dictionary of Vocal Themes Hardcover – 1950 by compilers Barlow, Harlow and Sam Morgenstern (Author) This dictionary allows to identify classical and semi classical sung melodies by using the first 4 notes of a tune in the index to find the piece. The book is also invaluable to determine the correct key of vocal pieces (pitching correct record speed) Book contains the incipts (first few bars) of all major Opera, Operetta, Oratorio and Lied melodies Dictionary of Vocal Themes (New York: Crown, 1950) is a music reference book by Sam Morgenstern and Harold Barlow. Contents The book collects 10,000 musical themes from songs and opera and indexes them using a notation index based on transposing the pitches to C major or C minor (so that God Save the Queen/America, for instance, would come out as CCDBCDEEFE). Authors Sam Morgenstern (1906-1989) was a teacher at Mannes College of Music in Greenwich Village, New York, and the conductor of Lower Manhattan's Lemonade Opera Company, which gave the US premiere of Prokofiev’s Duenna in 1948. He composed two short operas, along with Warsaw Ghetto (setting a spoken word poem by Harry Granick to background music), which premiered at

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
• Year: 1989
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780517524466
• Condition: Good

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