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The Bewitched

A Dance Satire
voice (weiblich), dancers and orchestra
Product number: ED 9354
Edition: Study score, Faksimile-Edition
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Description

Fasziniert von der Idee, es könne eine allwissende Hexe geben, schrieb Partch diese zehn Szenen für eine Sängerin und Ensemble. Dabei sind die Musiker und ihre Bewegungen Teil der Handlung, in der die Menschen durch eine Hexe von verschiedenen Problemen befreit werden. Die meisten der benötigten Instrumente sowie das verwendete Tonsystem wurden von Partch selbst entwickelt.

Orchestral Cast

Singstimme (weiblich), Tänzer, Piccolo, Klarinette, Bassklarinette, Cello, Kithara (2 Spieler), Koto, Harmonic Canon (2 Spieler), Surrogate Kithara, Chromelodeon, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, Diamond Marimba, Maramboo (Boo), Bass Marimba, Marimba Eroica

Content

Prologue - 1. The Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall - 2. Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual - 3. The Romancing of a Pathologic Liar Comes to an Inspired End - 4. A Soul Tormented Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy  - 5. Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room - 6. Euphoria Descends a Sousalito Stairway - 7. Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges - 8. A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apotheosis - 9. A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise - 10. The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails - Epilogue

More Information

Title:
The Bewitched
A Dance Satire
Edition:
Study score, Faksimile-Edition
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1954 - 1956
Duration:
80 ′
World Premiere:
March 26, 1957 · Champaign, IL (USA)
University of Illinois
Festival of Contemporary Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1957

Choreography: Alwin Nikolais · The Playhouse Dance Company
(scenic)
Series:
Title:
The Bewitched
A Dance Satire
Language:
English
Edition:
Study score, Faksimile-Edition
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1954 - 1956
Duration:
80 ′
World Premiere:
March 26, 1957 · Champaign, IL (USA)
University of Illinois
Festival of Contemporary Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1957

Choreography: Alwin Nikolais · The Playhouse Dance Company
(scenic)
Series:
Title:
The Bewitched
A Dance Satire
Language:
English
Edition:
Study score, Faksimile-Edition
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1954 - 1956
Duration:
80 ′
World Premiere:
March 26, 1957 · Champaign, IL (USA)
University of Illinois
Festival of Contemporary Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1957

Choreography: Alwin Nikolais · The Playhouse Dance Company
(scenic)
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 9354
ISMN13:
979-0-001-13055-4
Product number:
ED 9354
ISMN13:
979-0-001-13055-4
Weight:
0,66 kg
Pages:
192
Format:
21cm x 29.7cm
Binding:
Ring/Spiral binding
Product number:
ED 9354 Q49170
ISMN13:
979-0-001-13055-4
Pages:
195
File format:
(PDF / 45,62 MB)

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    Festival of Contemporary Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1957
    March 26, 1957 | Champaign, IL (United States of America) , University of Illinois — World Premiere
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