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Title
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en_US
Moralities/Moralitäten
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Edition Schott 6033
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Description
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Language note: Bilingual: English/German
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Original language: ger
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Hans Werner Henze; Wystan Hugh Auden; Deutsche Übersetzung von Maria Bosse-Sporleder
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Creator
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Auden, W.H.
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:05:42Z
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2011-07
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1969
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:05:42Z
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Date Issued
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1969
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Abstract
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The publisher describes this as three moralities plays after Aesop's fables, and the description is accurate. The title-page includes this sub-title: Version for 2 pianos or for harpsichord and 2 pianos/Fassung für 2 Klaviere oder für Cembalo und 2 Klaviere. In 1968 the Cincinnati Music Festival commissioned this work representing W.H. Auden's texts for three Aesopic fables. Each page offers fourteen musical staffs: a set of six that gives two each to harpsichord and either of two pianos; four for SATB; and a set of four that gives two each to two pianos. Each page thus offers one line of music and text in both German and English. Thus one fable runs to some length. FK runs from 1-60 and has this fine moral: When people are too dumb to know when all is well with them,/The gods shrug their shoulders and say: To hell with them! (60). The Horses and the Crows (61-110) is new to me. Horses come upon crows singing and begin to sing too, but horses are horses and crows are crows! The third deals with people in a sea-storm who promise Poseidon everything if they arrive safely. They do arrive safely, and they seem promptly to forget their promises. When afraid, men pray to the gods in all sincerity but worship only themselves in their days of prosperity. The German renditions of all three are available through Itunes.
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Identifier
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7491 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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B. Schott's Söhne
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Mainz
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Subject
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M1533.3.H45 M72 1969
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Aesop
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Type
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Book, Whole