Les cloches de Corneville [collection] = The chimes of Normandy : opéra-comique en 3 actes et 4 tableaux

Author / Creator

Planquette, Robert, 1848-1903

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Summary

Arranged in seven groups: I. Vocal scores (80). II. Vocal parts (8). III. Chorus parts (331). IV. Librettos (24). V. Promptbooks (14 in 20 vols.). VI. Dialogue parts (59). VII. Accompanying materia...

Arranged in seven groups: I. Vocal scores (80). II. Vocal parts (8). III. Chorus parts (331). IV. Librettos (24). V. Promptbooks (14 in 20 vols.). VI. Dialogue parts (59). VII. Accompanying material (1).

Vocal scores include French editions by Bathlot (Paris, 1877?) and Joubert (Paris, 1892?), and English editions by Boston Music Company (Boston, c1912), Ditson (Boston, c1879; Philadelphia, c1907), and Joseph Williams (London, 1878? and 1900-20?). Several copies are conductor's scores or stage manager's guides. Vocal parts are manuscript and in German "for "Die Glocken von Corneville," as are 12 of the chorus parts. Remaining chorus parts include French holograph copies bound in Tams folders (S/A, T & B) and English parts published by Tams (SATB). Librettos include a German edition (New York: Emil Halle, n.d.) published for the Irving Place Theatre, N. Y., a French/English edition for the Aimee French Opera (New York: Metropolitan Job Printing Establishment, 1878), and English editions by Joseph Williams (London, n.d.), Ditson (Boston, 1879), a "standard edition"(S.l., s.n., n.d., text by Myron A. Cooney), and a "libretto and parlor pianist" by The Theatre Ticket Office (New York, 1877) for the

Promptbooks include one German manuscript with a printed cast list pasted in. Remaining promptbooks are in English and include typed copies (one for the "condensed version" and one which is incomplete), manuscript copies (one of which is the "property of Chas. A. Tyrell"), and many versions based on a published libretto pasted into a ledger with manuscript or typed stage directions and other annotations. Among the latter is one bearing the signature stamp of Arthur Bell, one which is the "property of Max Figman"(?), one labelled "Ditson Ed., Property of Fred Solomon," which includes folded scene drawings bound in, and one labelled "Hess version."

Dialogue parts include three (?) English manuscript sets, two typescript English sets (one of which is for the "condensed version"), and a set of German manuscript parts, some bearing the embossed stamp of Franz Müller, some the stamp of Carl Hermann, Thalia Theatre. Accompanying material consists of text for "Supplementary scenes," which is the property of Chas. A. Tyrell.

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