Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gay, John, 1685-1732

Description

1. 1 score (various pagings); 28 cm

Uniform title

1. Music. Selections

Alternative title

1. Music.

Subject

1. Scores
2. Musical settings
3. Facsimiles
4. Rounds (Music)
5. Aleatory music
6. Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble
7. Canons, fugues, etc
8. Vocal ensembles
9. Music > Manuscripts > Facsimiles
10. Gay, John, 1685-1732 > Musical settings
11. Corner, Philip > Manuscripts > Facsimiles

Genre/Form

1. Aleatory music.
2. Scores.
3. Rounds (Music)
4. Facsimiles.
5. Musical settings.

Contents

1. The joke of life -- Life's a joke, again (and again) -- Life's a joke (as it always was) : a canon, a lawd -- Life's joke, always -- Life's a joke ... again & again & again -- Life's a joke : as a vershun with chorus -- Life's a joke : as a vershun for gamelan -- Life's a joke : as a vershun for orchestra.

Call number

1. JMF 22-193

Note

1. Chiefly for voices with optional instruments; Life's joke, always without words.
2. Various settings of John Gay's My own epitaph; the last three pieces consist of textual instructions only.
3. Reproduced from holograph.

Language (note)

1. English words.

Author

1. Corner, Philip, composer.

Title

1. Life's a joke : all the versions : for voices and/or instruments, includes orchestra & gamelan (some are rounds) / Philip Corner ; John Gay.

Publisher

1. Lebanon, NH : Frog Peak Music, [2021]

Type of content

1. notated music

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Language

1. English words.

Added author

1. Gay, John, 1685-1732, author.

Publisher no.

1. Cor15 Frog Peak Music

Research call number

1. JMF 22-193