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  • Voyages - For Baritone and Piano
    John Franceschina
    VOYAGES was commissioned in 1986 by baritone David Stephens for the New Music Festival sponsored by the School of Music at Florida State University. It was premiered by David Stephens accompanied by the composer at the Dohnányi Recital Hall in Tallahassee, Florida, on 28 April 1988. A song cycle for high baritone, Voyages consists of tonal musical settings for Hart Crane’s six ...
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    24,90 €

  • Collected Songs - Musical Settings from Song Cycles and Plays
    John Franceschina
    This volume of Collected Songs by John Franceschina exhibits an assortment of musical settings, ranging from contemporary art songs to show business tunes, as diverse as the poetry provided by the seven authors represented. French libertine poet and novelist, Baron Jacques d’Adelswärd Fersen (1880-1923) begins the collection with four romantic poems from his L’Hymnaire d’Adonis...
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    28,14 €

  • Desire Under the Elms - Incidental Music for Orchestra
    John Franceschina
    Desire Under the Elms: Incidental Music for Orchestra was commissioned by the School of Theatre at Florida State University for the production of Eugene O’Neill’s play, Desire Under the Elms, directed by Gil Lazier, opening at the Richard G. Fallon Theatre on 7 March 1980. John Franceschina’s incidental music portrayed the dark and dissonant atmosphere of the fatal attraction b...
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    26,74 €

  • Let the Children Play - A Musical Morality Play
    John Franceschina
    A musical about the ill-fated Children’s Crusade in 1212, Let the Children Play was originally produced at the Hartke Theatre, Washington, D.C. beginning 18 April 1975. Music, book, and lyrics by John Franceschina, directed by Leo Brady, choreography, and musical numbers by Stephen Lyon, set design by Gerard P. Bourcier, costumes by Jo-Ellen La Rue, lighting by James D. Waring,...
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    42,03 €

  • Candida - Incidental Music for String Quartet
    John Franceschina
    Candida, Incidental Music for String Quartet was commissioned in 1985 by director Neal Kenyon for his production of George Bernard Shaw’s nineteenth-century comedy Candida at the Richard G. Fallon Theatre in Tallahassee, Florida, during the 1985-1986 theatre season. To sustain the atmosphere of a nineteenth-century conservative society, the director asked for a suite of musical...
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    23,38 €

  • Scenes from the Jungle - A Romantic Opera in Two Acts (Vocal Score)
    John Franceschina
    Commissioned by the Dutch Ensemble Opus Two in 2017, Scenes from the Jungle, a multi-media romantic opera in two acts, was loosely based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1912 novel, Tarzan of the Apes, in the Dutch translation by W.J.A. Ronaldus, Jr. The work was scored for three singers playing eight different roles, an orchestra of eleven accordions and three percussionists performi...
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    40,81 €

  • Houtebeen - An Oratorio for Male Chorus, Strings, Accordions, and Percussion
    John Franceschina
    The historical oratorio, Houtebeen, was commissioned in 2013 by Accordeonensemble Alphen Opus 2 and Rotterdams Jongemannenkoor De Coolsingers, both under the direction of conductor Sergé Latychev. The hour-long work was scored for male chorus, tenor soloist, accordion ensemble, string ensemble, percussion, synthesizer, and narrator and depicted the career of Cornelis Corneliszo...
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    37,23 €

  • Joppenszoon - A Cantata for Tenor and Baritone, Accordion Ensemble, and Percussion
    John Franceschina
    Composed to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the liberation of Leiden on 3 October 1574 from Spain during the Eighty Years War, Joppenszoon is the musical depiction of events in the Netherlands during the summer and autumn of that year as seen through the eyes of Cornelis Joppensz, called Jappenszoon, the young boy who is credited as the first observer of the Spanish retreat,...
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    28,70 €

  • Carnaval - Concerto Grosso for Woodwind and Accordion
    John Franceschina
    Carnaval, Concerto Grosso for Winds and Accordions was commissioned in 2015 by the Noord Hollands Blazers Ensemble, under the direction of Lex Bak, and Accordeonensemble Alphen Opus 2, conducted by Hans Barten. The composition was inspired by a painting by Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569) 'The Battle between Carnival and Lent.' Display Parade, the first movement, examines the many as...
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    32,26 €

  • Oroonoko - Rhapsody for Bayan Accordion Ensemble Synthesizer and Percussion
    John Franceschina
    Commissioned as a competition entry by 'Sam' Falcetti for the Springfield Accordion Orchestra in 1985, Oroonoko: Rhapsody for Bayan Accordion Ensemble has been performed by virtuoso accordion ensembles in concerts and musical competitions around the world. Inspired by the 1688 novel, Oroonoko, by British author Aphra Behn, the composition evokes the narrative of the eponymous A...
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    28,78 €

  • Kynaston - Concert Variations on a Theme by Henry Purcell for Bayan Accordion Ensemble and Percussion
    John Franceschina
    Commissioned by 'Sam' Falcetti for the Springfield Accordion Orchestra in 1983, Kynaston has been performed by virtuoso accordion ensembles in concerts and competitions around the world. Inspired by the Errol Flynn-like theatre career of Edward ('Ned') Kynaston, the English Restoration leading man who triumphed in swashbuckling costume heroic dramas and romantic comedies, Kynas...
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    32,25 €

  • Journey to the Center of the Earth - 3 Ballets arranged for Bayan Accordion Ensemble
    John Franceschina
    Journey to the Center of the Earth was first performed on tour in the Netherlands by the accordion musical-theatre ensemble, Alphen Opus 2, in October 2009. The music was conducted by Sergé Latychev and the stage production was directed by Arnold Sandhaus.             The ballet Pellucidar was inspired by the fourth book of the fictional 'hollow earth' series, Tarzan at the Ear...
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    49,29 €

  • Requiem for Chorus, Soloists, and Accordion Ensemble
    John Franceschina
    The Requiem was composed for Accordeonensemble Opus 2 to commemorate the beatification of Italian teenager, Carlo Acutis, by Pope Francis on 10 October 2020. The conservatively tonal work intersperses the Latin text of the traditional Requiem Mass with reflections on death, musical settings of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman, Christina Rossetti, Arthur Rimbeau, and La...
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    32,20 €

  • Leiden Suite for Accordion Ensemble
    John Franceschina
    Composed for the accordion ensemble, Alphen Opus 1 in 2018, the Leiden Suite presents a series of musical portraits of Leiden, Netherlands, the composer’s home. Designed to be easily accessible to both performers and audiences, the suite consists of five short movements, each portraying a characteristic experience of the city: Breestraat, a busy shopping district and home to th...
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    25,75 €

  • Concerto voor Saxofoon en Blassensemble
    John Franceschina
    The Conerto voor Saxofoon en Blassensemble was composed in 2018 for Dutch saxophonist Ati Lust and the Noord-Hollands Blazers Ensemble, under the direction of Lex Bak. Written in a tonal idiom, the concerto is in three movements, in which the soloist is required to perform on the alto saxophone in the technically challenging outer movements, and on the soprano saxophone in the ...
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    29,84 €

  • Eight Obscene Plays from the French Erotic Theatre of the 18th and 19th Centuries
    John Franceschina
    The eight obscene plays in this collection are notable examples of French erotic theatre from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first series of five plays comes from the two-volume Le Théâtre gaillard, revu et augmenté, 1776-1865 (Bawdy Theatre, revised and expanded, 1776-1865): from volume one, the three-act comedy, The Bordello, and the three-act verse tragedy, Vas...
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    27,91 €

  • Ross Alexander
    John Franceschina
    Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Alexander. Strikingly handsome, with a sensuality that appealed to women (and men) of all ages, and possessed of a Puck-like good humor that endeared him to columnists, co-stars, and virtually everyone else in the Hollywood film commun...
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    32,53 €

  • David Braham
    John Franceschina
    David Braham (1834-1905) was the musical director for the famous vaudeville team of Harrigan and Hart, writing music for many of their comic songs, including The Mulligan Guards, Paddie Duffy’s Cart, and many more. His long career as a theatrical composer in New York helped establish a new style of Broadway musical. He came from a family well-entrenched in the music and theater...
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    35,21 €

  • Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923
    John Franceschina
    Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American theatre: what they did and how they did it from the early days of the American musical theatre through the musicals of the millennium. Since no book currently exists that chronicles the art of arran...
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    26,11 €

  • Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923
    John Franceschina
    Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American theatre: what they did and how they did it from the early days of the American musical theatre through the musicals of the millennium. Since no book currently exists that chronicles the art of arran...
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    36,70 €

  • Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 Vol. 2
    John Franceschina
    Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American theatre: what they did and how they did it from the early days of the American musical theatre through the musicals of the millennium. Since no book currently exists that chronicles the art of arran...
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    32,06 €

  • Harry B. Smith
    John Franceschina
    Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history, with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City. He was instrumental in adapting and popularizing foreign musicals in America. This examination of his work and process is instructive of the history of the American musical. ...
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    91,88 €

  • Music Theory Through Musical Theatre
    John Franceschina
    Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory. Written specifically for students in music theatre programs, it offers music theory by way of musical theatre. Not a traditional music theory text, Music Theory through Musical Theatre tackles the theoretical foundations of musical theatre and musical theatre literature with an emphasis on w...
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    97,70 €

  • Gore On Stage
    John Franceschina
    It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England. It is less well known that Mrs. Gore’s 200-volume output included eleven extremely popular, if not always critically successful, plays, performed at all three of the Theatres Royal in London: Drur...
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    93,50 €

  • Rape, Incest, Murder! the Marquis de Sade on Stage Volume Three - Asylum Plays
    Marquis De Sade / John Franceschina
    'When numerous critics have all pointed to the stunning mastery of dialogue evinced in [Sade’s] novels, to say nothing of the truly theatrical disposition of many of the scenes-erotic or otherwise-this would seem to be linked to the theatrical obsession that persisted so disturbingly throughout his tempestuous existence. Shouldn’t we therefore look more closely at this theatre....
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    31,97 €

  • Rape, Incest, Murder! the Marquis de Sade on Stage Volume One
    John Franceschina / Marquis De Sade
    'When numerous critics have all pointed to the stunning mastery of dialogueevinced in [Sade’s] novels, to say nothing of the truly theatricaldisposition of many of the scenes―erotic or otherwise―this would seem to belinked to the theatrical obsession that persisted so disturbingly throughouthis tempestuous existence. Shouldn’t we therefore look more closely at thistheatre...?'-...
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    32,13 €

  • Rape, Incest, Murder! the Marquis de Sade on Stage Volume Two
    Marquis De Sade / John Franceschina
    'When numerous critics have all pointed to the stunning mastery of dialogue evinced in [Sade’s] novels, to say nothing of the truly theatrical disposition of many of the scenes-erotic or otherwise-this would seem to be linked to the theatrical obsession that persisted so disturbingly throughout his tempestuous existence. Shouldn’t we therefore look more closely at this theatre....
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    32,06 €

  • Out of Line
    John Franceschina
    Off-Broadway composer John Franceschina’s wonderful musical score, now in print for the first time! ...
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    27,11 €

  • Duke Ellington’s Music for the Theatre
    John Franceschina
    Duke Ellington’s son Mercer has said that his father was frustrated in only one area of musical ambition: his desire to do his own Broadway show. Though Ellington wrote many theatrical pieces, he was never able to achieve success as a composer for the stage, and today his stage shows receive little attention from music historians. Nevertheless, these works occupied a signifi...
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    57,35 €

  • Sisters of Gore
    John C. Franceschina
    The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s. ...
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    81,62 €