Research Catalog

Title

Terra nostra / Stacy Garrop.

Author

Garrop, Stacy, 1969-

Publication

• [Malvern, Pennsylvania] : Theodore Presser Company, [2020]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
• Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
• Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903
• Magee, John, 1922-1941
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
• Iverem, Esther, 1960-
• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
• Berry, Wendell, 1934-
• San Francisco Choral Society, commissioning body.

Description

1 vocal score (147 pages); 31 cm

Uniform Title

Terra nostra. Vocal score

Alternative Title

• Terra nostra.
• Terra nostra : an oratorio

Subjects

• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra > Vocal scores with piano
• Vocal scores
• Oratorios
• Secular oratorios > Vocal scores with piano

Genre/Form

• Oratorios.
• Vocal scores.

Note

• Secular oratorio for 4 vocal soloists (SMezTBar), mixed chorus (SATB), children's chorus, and orchestra; accompaniment arranged for piano
• Libretto from the King James Bible and creation myths from India, North American and Egypt, and poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walt Whitman, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Charles Mackay, William Ernest Henley, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lord Byron, Esther Iverem, William Wordsworth and Wendell Berry.
• Commissioned by the San Francisco Choral Society in collaboration with the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir.
• Duration: approximately 71 min.

Language (note)

• English words; also printed as text preceding score.

Contents

Part I. Creation of the world. In the beginning (creation myths) ; God's world (Millay) ; On thine own child (Shelley) ; Smile, o voluptuous cool-breathed earth! (Whitman) ; A blade of grass (Whitman) -- Part 2. The rise of humanity. Locksley Hall (Tennyson) ; Railways 1846 (Mackay) ; A song of speed (Henley) ; High flight (Magee) ; Binsey poplars (Hopkins) ; A dirge (Shelley) -- Part III. Searching for balance. Darkness (Byron) ; Earth screaming (Iverem) ; The world is too much with us (Wordsworth) ; The want of peace (Berry) ; A child said, what is the grass? (Whitman) ; There was a childwent forth every day (Whitman) ; A blade of grass/I bequeath myself (Whitman).

Call Number

JNG 21-6

LCCN

680160634903

OCLC

1138030474

Author

Garrop, Stacy, 1969- composer.

Title

Terra nostra / Stacy Garrop.

Publisher

[Malvern, Pennsylvania] : Theodore Presser Company, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

Piano-vocal score.

Playing Time

011100

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Physical Medium

vocal score rdafnm

Language

English words; also printed as text preceding score.

Staff notation

Added Author

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950, librettist.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822, librettist.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, librettist.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, librettist.

Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889, librettist.

Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903, librettist.

Magee, John, 1922-1941, librettist.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889, librettist.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, librettist.

Iverem, Esther, 1960- librettist.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, librettist.

Berry, Wendell, 1934- librettist.

San Francisco Choral Society, commissioning body.

Cover Title

Terra nostra : an oratorio

Other Standard Identifier

680160634903

Publisher No.

411-41147 Theodore Presser Company

Research Call Number

JNG 21-6