Crumb STAR-CHILD

No. 66711

GEORGE CRUMB STAR-CHILD

ISSUU Version For Perusal Only

A Parable for Soprano, Antiphonal Children’s Voices, Male Speaking Choir and Bell Ringers, and Large Orchestra Score

ISSUU Version For Perusal Only

GEORGE CRUMB

ANCIENT VOICES OF CHILDREN (1970) (25 minutes) (P66303)

Soprano, Boy Soprano, Oboe, Mandolin, Harp, Electric Piano (& Toy Piano), Percussion (three players)

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

APPARITION (ca. 22 minutes) (1979) (P66832)

Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano

Text from Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

BLACK ANGELS (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) (Images I) (1970) (25 minutes) (P66304)

Electric String Quartet

CELESTIAL MECHANICS (MAKROKOSMOS IV) (1979) (ca. 25 minutes) (P66788)

Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano – 4 Hands

DREAM SEQUENCE (Images II) (1976) (ca. 15 minutes) (P66690)

Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion (one player), offstage “Glass Harmonica” (two players)

EASTER DAWNING (1991) (ca. 4 minutes) (P67442)

Carillon

ECHOES OF TIME AND THE RIVER (1967) (ca. 20 minutes) (P68061)

3 Fl (3 Picc), 3 Cl, 3 Hn, 3 Tr, 3 Trom, Perc (6), 2 Pf. (Amplified), Hp, Mandolin, Strings

ELEVEN ECHOES OF AUTUMN, 1965 (Echoes I) (1966) (18 minutes) (P66457)

Violin, Alto Flute, Clarinet, Piano FEDERICO’S LITTLE SONGS FOR CHILDREN (1986) (ca. 20 minutes) (P67159)

MUNDUS CANIS (“A DOG’S WORLD”) (1998) (ca.10 minutes) (P67891)

Guitar, Percussion (one player)

MUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING (MAKROKOSMOS III) (1974) (40 minutes) (P66590)

Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion (two players)

NIGHT MUSIC I (1963) (ca. 20½ minutes) (P68047)

Soprano, Piano (and Celesta), and Percussion (Two Players)

Text:Poems of Federico García Lorca

NIGHT OF THE FOUR MOONS (1969) (16 minutes) (P66462)

Alto, Alto Flute (Picc), Banjo, Electric Cello, Percussion (one player)

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

OTHERWORDLY RESONANCES (2002) (ca. 19 minutes) (P68002)

Two Amplified Pianos

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Soprano, Flute (Picc, Alto, Bass) and Harp

Text: Federico García Lorca

FIVE PIECES FOR PIANO (1962) (8 minutes) (P66464)

FOUR NOCTURNES (Night Music II) (1964) (9 minutes) (P66465)

Violin and Piano

GNOMIC VARIATIONS (1981) (ca. 25 minutes) (P66905)

Piano Solo

*A HAUNTED LANDSCAPE (1984) (ca. 18 minutes). Score (P67003)

3(Picc)3(EH)3(E -)3(Cbsn) 4331 T, Perc(4), Pf(Amplified), 2Hps, Str

AN IDYLL FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (1985) (15 minutes) (P67094)

Flute (Amplified) and Percussion (3 players)

Version for Horn and Percussion: P67094a

A JOURNEY BEYOND TIME (AMERICAN SONGBOOK II) (A Cycle of Afro-American Spirituals) (2003) (ca. 40 minutes) (P68063) for Female Voice (or female and male voices alternately), Percussion Quartet, and Amplified Piano.

EINE KLEINE MITTERNACHTMUSIK (Ruminations on 'Round Midnight by Thelonius Monk) (2001) (15 minutes) (P68044) for Amplified Piano

A LITTLE SUITE FOR CHRISTMAS, A.D. 1979 (1980) (ca. 15 minutes) (P66833)

Piano Solo

LUX AETERNA FOR FIVE MASKED MUSICIANS (1971) (15 minutes) (P66495)

Soprano, Bass Flute (& Soprano Recorder), Sitar, Percussion (two players)

MADRIGALS, BOOK I (1965) (9 minutes) (P66458)

Soprano, Contrabass, Vibraphone

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

MADRIGALS, BOOK II (1965) (61/2 minutes) (P66459)

Soprano, Flute (Picc, Alto), Percussion (one player)

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

MADRIGALS, BOOK III (1969) (71/2 minutes) (P66460)

Soprano, Harp, Percussion (one player)

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

MADRIGALS, BOOK IV (1969) (9 minutes) (P66461)

Soprano, Flute (Picc, Alto), Harp, Contrabass, Percussion (one player)

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

MAKROKOSMOS, VOLUME I (Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano) (1972) (33 minutes) (P66539a)

MAKROKOSMOS, VOLUME II (Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano) (1973) (33 minutes) (P66539b)

* performance material available on rental

PASTORAL DRONE (1982) (ca. 8 minutes) (P66965)

Organ Solo

PROCESSIONAL (1983) (ca. 12 minutes) (P66991)

Piano Solo

QUEST (1990; rev. 1994) (ca. 25 minutes) (P67575)

Gtr Solo, Sop Sax, Perc(2), Hp, Cb

THE RIVER OF LIFE (AMERICAN SONGBOOK I) (A Cycle of Hymns, Spirituals and Revival Tunes) (2003) (ca. 45 minutes) (P68062) for Female Voice, Percussion Quartet and Amplified Piano. THE SLEEPER (1984) (3 minutes) (P67015)

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano

Text: Edgar Allan Poe

SONATA (1955) (ca. 10 minutes) (P6056)

Violoncello Solo

SONGS, DRONES AND REFRAINS OF DEATH (1968) (30 minutes) (P66463)

Baritone, Electric Guitar, Electric Contrabass, Amplified Piano (& Amplified Harpsichord), Two Percussionists

Text: Poems of Federico García Lorca

*STAR-CHILD – A Parable for Soprano, Antiphonal Children's Voices, Male Speaking Choir and Bell Ringers, and Large Orchestra (1977) (33 minutes) (P66711)

4(4 Picc)4(EH)4(E-)4(Cbsn) 6731 Perc(8), Organ, Strings

The Latin texts are freely adapted primarily from Medieval sources of the 13th century: Dies Irae and Massacre of the Innocents.

THREE EARLY SONGS (1947) (ca. 7 minutes) (P67111)

Voice and Piano

1. Night; 2. Let It Be Forgotten; 3. Wind Elegy

Texts: Robert Southey (1); Sara Teasdale (2 and 3)

UNTO THE HILLS (AMERICAN SONGBOOK III) (A Cycle of Appalachian Folk Songs) (2002) (ca. 40 minutes) (P68001) for Female Voice (or male voice, or female and male voices alternately), Percussion Quartet, and Amplified Piano

*VARIAZIONI (ca. 25 minutes) (P66524) 3343 4331 Perc(5), Hp, Cel, Mand, Str

VOICES FROM A FORGOTTEN WORLD (AMERICAN SONGBOOK V) (A Cycle of American Songs from North, South, East and West) (2006) (ca. 46 minutes) (P68216) for Two Solo Voices (Male and Female), Percussion Quartet and Amplified Piano.

VOICES FROM THE MORNING OF THE EARTH (AMERICAN SONGBOOK VI) (A Cycle of American Songs from North, South, East and West) (2007) (ca. 45 minutes) (P68234) for Two Solo Voices (Male and Female), Percussion Quartet and Amplified Piano.

VOX BALAENAE FOR THREE MASKED PLAYERS (1971) (18 minutes) (P66466)

Electric Flute, Electric Cello, Amplified Piano

THE WINDS OF DESTINY(AMERICAN SONGBOOK IV) (A Cycle of American Civil War Songs, Folk Songs, and Spirituals) (2004) (ca. 45 - 50 minutes) (P68076) for Female Voice, Percussion Quartet and Amplified Piano.

ZEITGEIST (Six Tableaux for Two Amplified Pianos, Book I) (1988) (ca. 35 minutes) (P67251)

All works by George Crumb performed from score, except A HAUNTED LANDSCAPE, STAR-CHILD and VARIAZIONI.

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