The New Life: A Cantata Based on Dantes [sic] Text ; for Baritone, Soprano, Chorus, Orchestra, Organ and Piano, Op. 9 |
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1st CHOIR accel Adagio allarg Altos Avanti Ballata Baritone Baritone-Solo Basses Bassoon Beatrice beauty behold Boys canto Canzone Celli chorus Clar cresc Dante death dolce e'en th'E earth a-scend English horn espr ev er Ev'ry saint eyes Fa-cta est qua-si falsetto fill-ing the heav'ns fire that fills greet thee Harps Him-self such blessed Horns Human hearts thou Intermezzo Kettledrums know eth La Vita Nuova ladies ledge pos leggero Lentissimo lord doth crave Love lunga ly the maidens maidens greet mo-do molto mosso Nature's children rar peace I pray perdendosi Piano poco rit pon the earth pppp Prologue rap ture rinf ritard riten second Choir sempre sing-ing Sire was mov'd smorz Solo Sonetto sonnet Sopr Sopranos Sostenuto soul spell of thy tempo 9 Tenors unto veal Viol Vita Nuova Chap voices wait the hap-py weep WOLF-FERRARI women Wood
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Page 6 - LA VITA NUOVA" is the title of a curious little volume which we have reason to suppose was written by Dante somewhere about the year 1292, and in which he recounts the story of his boyhood's love・ As such, it forms a commentary in prose to a number of poems written during the ten preceding years・ In the opening lines of the work, the poet himself ex plains the title: "In that part of the Book of my reminiscences, before which but little is to be read, there is a super scription
Page 6 - Oalvacanti, he decided in favor of Italian・ He tells us how, at the age of nine, he fell in love with a girl one year younger than himself, in Florence in 1274, and he goes on to describe the bliss and the sorrows of that love to its earthly end...
Page 6 - the divine mistress of my spirit, who was called BEATR1CE by many that knew not what name to give her・" (Beatrice means: the bestoweress of bliss)・ The work written to glorify her led to the conception, and the writing, of the "Divina Commedia...
Page 6 - ... delicious work produced by the middle-ages・ All is softness, tenderness, silent longing, pious sentiment, a tenderness which but few are now capable of feeling・ Nowhere do we find the slightest indication of that energy and harshness, that concise brevity, that abrupt style, that graphic de scription, characteristic of his later writings・ A world of events had to pass before him, ere the author of "La Vita Nuova...