Ercole in Tebe (Melani, Jacopo)

		Movements/Sections Prolog & 5 acts Composition Year 1661 Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Italian language

Sheet Music

• Full Scores (3)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (1)

Full Scores

 Prolog, Acts I, II
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 Acts III, IV, V
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Publisher Info.:

Versailles: André Danican Philidor, 1699

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Extract from fonds Philidor - Composed for Côme III de Médicis & Marguerite Louise d'Orléans wedding- very bad quality scan on top of all pages

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 Overture to Prolog
*#251158 - 0.06MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - !N/!N/!N - 52x⇩

PDF typeset by Richard Kram
Richard Kram (2012/9/18)

Editor:

Richard Kram

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Richard Kram

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Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Scored for Strings, however cornetti and trombone may also be indicated (no labels in parts).

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

For Double Reed Quartet (Kram)

 Overture to Prolog
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Richard Kram (2012/9/18)

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Richard Kram

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Richard Kram

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Misc. Notes:

Transposed to B flat from original key of D major and a few shifts in oboe and english horn for playability.

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General Information

Work Title	Ercole in Tebe, Festa teatrale
Alternative Title

Composer	Melani, Jacopo
Movements/Sections	Prolog & 5 acts
Year/Date of Composition	1661
First Performance	1661-06-25 in Firenze: Théâtre della Pergola (possibly July 8).
Librettist	Giovanni Andrea Moniglia (1624-1700)
Language	Italian
Piece Style	Baroque
Instrumentation	Rôles Berecinta (Ut 1), Giove (Fa 4), Nettuno (Fa 4), Plutone (Fa 4), la Gloria (Ut 1), la Virtù (Ut 1), Lico (Fa 4), Aristeo (Ut 4), Ilo (Ut 1), Iole (Ut 1), Megara (Ut 1), Ercole (Ut 4), Alceste (Ut 4), Sifone (Ut 4), Arsace (Ut 4), Giunone (Ut 1), Mercurio (Ut 3), Zefiro (Ut 1), Ebe (Ut 1), Iride (Ut 1 ), Caronte (Fa 4), Iolao (Ut 2), Aletto (Ut 4), Proserpina (Ut 1), Venere (Ut 1), Radamanto (Ut 4), Minos (Ut 4), Teseo (Ut 3), Clitarco (Ut 3) Chorus Ut 3, Ut 4, Fa 4 ; Ut 1, Ut 3, Ut 4, Fa 4 ; Sol 2, Ut 1, Ut 3, Ut 4, Fa 4. Orchestra Sol 1 (2), Ut 2 ou Ut 3, Fa 4 ; Sol 1, Ut 1, Ut 2, Fa 4. Mentions d'instrumentation sous la musique : violini, cornetti, trombone. Incompletes choirs: only continuo marked, the three others lines blank.