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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Tue Dec 4, 2001  6:28 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Fair Robin


You're right - the Mechem was originally from Tartuffe (his Op. 47); he
seems to have liked it so much he also included it in his song cycle TO AN
ABSENT LOVE, which is his Op. 58. Other composers have certainly been
known to do the same type of thing, e.g., Michael Tippett's "Songs of
Achilles", which were excerpted as a song cycle from his opera KING PRIAM.

Orchestrally, this kind of excerpting seems to be done even more often -
e.g., the Four Sea Interludes from Britten's PETER GRIMES, the Dances from
his GLORIANA, Beethoven's Leonore Overture #3, etc.

Karen Mercedes
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