[mascagni-interest] Score Inquiry

[John Mucci]

I have been having the most difficult time finding vocal scores for some of
the less well-known Mascagni works. Thanks to Erik and his message about
SheetMusic, we have a good resource for some of them, but just try to find I
Rantzau or Parisina.

Actually, The Bagaduce Music Lending Library in Maine
(http://www.bagaducemusic.org/) has a copy of I Rantzau for rent ($2 plus a
$10 fee for the year, allowing you to borrow from all their many thousands
of scores), and although it's a beautiful original 1893 edition--I am not
sure if they change the date with impressions--it is a piano/text score, one
of those volumes meant for the rehearsal pianist, not the singer or the
enthusiast. Nonetheless it's a fascinating thing to see, but I'd like to
find a vocal score somewhere.

On abebooks.com there is a listing for Oper, "Die Rantzau", Oper von  Pietro
Mascagni, 4 Szenen auf 1 Blatt,  Hst. 1893, 32x22 - which might have the
vocal line, but in German! Having bought a copy of "Der Kleine Marat" under
the same auspices, I know it is almost as frustrating as the piano/text
score for an American. (The reason why it's so frustrating is that Sonzogno
printed exclusive German editions, as the language required almost entirely
different vocal lines in places, and would have been difficult to read with
the Italian laid in above or below it).

And Parisina? I can't find hide nor hair of it anywhere in any language.
www.Sonzogno.it doesn't even list it (or I Rantzau) in its inventory on the
website.  I am sure that if one approached Casa Musicale Sonzogno personally
one might obtain a copy of each, but it is still quite difficult to get hold
of.

For operamusic subscribers, if you don't know Mascagni's Parisina, you
really should try to get hold of the Montpellier recording of it, even
though its last act is truncated.  I am not sure that even the several
in-depth analyses of it have begun to scratch the surface of what it has to
offer; and when it was performed originally (from 1912 to into the 1930s) I
don't think the audience had a clue what was going on in it.






John Mucci
9 DeForest Rd
Wilton, CT 06897
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