Prologue

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Song TitlePrologue (Search)
Composer(s):Dominick Argento
Author(s):Dominick Argento
Keyword(s) & Features: Adventures; Asking; Austrian; Balloons; Charlatans; Compasses; Diaries; Don Quixote; Dreaming; Dreams; Expeditions; Exploring; Flying; Freezing; Glory; Goddesses; Immortality; Impressing; Journals; Journeys; Leaders; Love Letters; Museums; Newspapers; North; North Pole; Part of a Song Cycle; Photographs; Prose; Risking; Seeking Fame; Simpletons; Stars; Sweden; Swedish; Traveling; Wind; Writing
First LineWhat was it the Austrian newspaper wrote (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1982 (Search)
Larger WorkThe Andrée Expedition (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Argento-Dominick-The-Andree-Expedition-baritone-piano/2004779
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/0y0mK641AdBovWbo3Il8nm?si=ZW8jxZ7FR8OurIRsyEeaig
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationThe Andrée Expedition, Part One: In the Air, no. 1 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerBaritone
Range: C#3 - F#4 (Search)
Original KeyA major (Search)
Dedicated ToJeanne Shepard (Search)
Premiered ByHåkan Hagegård, baritone; Thomas Schuback, piano (Search)
Commissioned ByThe Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its 100th Anniversary (Search)
Noteshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceBoosey and Hawkes (Search)
Sources CitedA performer's guide to the text and music of Dominick Argento's The Andrée Expedition, a dissertation by Michael Andrew Paxson. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1261075936&disposition=inline (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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