Prologue
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory ZavrackySong Title | Prologue (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 Line | What was it the Austrian newspaper wrote (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1982 (Search) |
Larger Work | The Andrée Expedition (Search) |
Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
Original Language | English (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 Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
Catalog Designation | The Andrée Expedition, Part One: In the Air, no. 1 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone |
Range: | C#3 - F#4 (Search) |
Original Key | A major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Jeanne Shepard (Search) |
Premiered By | Håkan Hagegård, baritone; Thomas Schuback, piano (Search) |
Commissioned By | The Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its 100th Anniversary (Search) |
Notes | https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | Boosey and Hawkes (Search) |
Sources Cited | A 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) |
Contributor | JEM (Search) |