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Il pesceballo = The fish-ball

Title
Il pesceballo = The fish-ball / Italian libretto by Francis James Child ; English translation by James Russell Lowell ; music by Maestro Rossibelli-Donimozarti ; recitatives by John Knowles Paine ; transcription and adaptation by Eric Thomas Knechtges ; Mary Ellen Brown, historical impresaria (editor).
Publication
[Bloomington Indiana?] : Mary Ellen Brown, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.
  • Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
  • Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906.
  • Knechtges, Eric, 1978-
  • Brown, Mary Ellen, 1939-
  • Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Description
1 vocal score (v, 133 pages); 28 cm +
Alternative Title
Fish-ball
Subject
Note
  • Pasticcio with Italian text based on the Harvard University anecdote and comic ballad "The lay of the one fishball" with music consisting of pre-existing opera excerpts by Donizetti, Rossini, Mozart, and Bellini.
  • For voices with piano acc.
  • Italian words, also printed as text with English translation, p. 11-21.
  • The acc. CD contains a revival of Il pesceballo that took place, Aug.3-4, 2008, at the Great Hall of Trinity Episcopal church, Bloomington, Indiana. All performers were students from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. The performance was acc. by a piano quintet.
OCLC
  • ocn276567782
  • 276567782
  • SCSB-9103936
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries