Agamemnon (Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 9
Composition Year 1900
Genre Categories Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For male chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring male chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; English language

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Publisher. Info. London: Novello, 1900. Plate 8310.
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Work Title Agamemnon
Alternative. Title
Composer Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. ICP 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 11
No. 1. Introduction (p. I-V)
  • Act I
No. 2. Act I, Scene 2: Chorus, "Ten years now are sped (p.1)
No. 3. Chorus, "O Zeus our king (p.35)
No. 4. Chorus, "Who was it who gave the name" (p.57)
  • Act II
No. 5. Prelude (p.71), Chorus (p.72), and Triumphal March (p.76)
No. 6. Chorus, "Tell me why, at ev'ry hour" (p.78)
No. 7. The Lament and Prophecy of Cassandra, and Chorus (p.87)
  • Intermezzo (p.104)
  • Act III
No. 8. Chorus, "Tis a law of life" (p.105)
No. 9. Lament and Recitative - Chorus and Clytaemenestra (p.110)
  • Coda (p.129)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1900
First Performance. 1900-11-16 (New Theatre, Cambridge)
First Publication. 1900
Librettist Aeschylus, translated by Henry John Edwards (1869-1923)
Language Greek, English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation Chorus (TB), orchestra.

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Commissioned by Cambridge (Dibble, 1992, p.374): "The main work that occupied Parry during 1900 and which overlapped both the composition of the Te Deum and The Soldier's Tent was the music commissioned by Cambridge University for Aeschylus' Agamemnon".

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