Elektra in Full Score (Dover Opera Scores)

It is in "Elektra" that Richard Strauss came closest to entering the world of atonality (some passages - e.g., Klytämnestra's recounting how sleep is denied to her thanks to terrible nightmares - actually do cross the border temporarily); also, compared to "Salome"'s seductive, enticing feeling, Strauss (while using a very similar formula in fact to the other work) nevertheless from the very 1st notes evokes a completely different atmosphere!To fully appreciate the grim world of this work, even when following recordings, one can't do without the full-score - and what a Godsend with Dover's inexpensive, well-sized, well-bound reprint of the original Adolf Fürstner edition!!! Most warmly recommended not only to Strauss-lovers but also to all opera-buffs, serious music students (especially those who care about the orchestra and effective writing for it!) and generally for any serious music-library!!If anybody finds any of the print small, good luck with trying to get a full-sized score of the kind a conductor actually uses on the podium (something like 11" x 14") - those things all too often are not available for sale but only on rental when a conductor is actually performing the work somewhere! As it stands, on all of size, book-quality and price: this Dover edition beats the official Fürstner + Boosey & Hawkes study-score (around 8½" x 11") HANDS DOWN!!!!! Absolutely a complete steal - please don't miss out on it!!!!

I knew that Elektra had the largest orchestra of any opera, 111 players, so what I really wanted to see was the instrumentation, and is it interesting. How many composers use Heckelphones, Basset Horns and violins parts 1,2,3 and 4. And it just get more interesting from there.

As expected

Nicely bound book!

This is a great buy compared to the full score available from the other publisher--Boosey, I believe. Its one drawback is the extremely tiny print on some pages which make it sometimes difficult to follow.

As far as I know, this is a reprint of the only edition of this masterwork. The size is, obviously, too small to conduct from it, but it is big enough to read the details in notation. It lies flat on a music desk, and it is well bound.It should be in the library of any serious musician, conductor, composer, or opera aficionado.

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譜面が凄まじいことになっているリヒャルト・シュトラウスの作品の中でもとくに凄まじいことになっているエレクトラのスコアですが(それでもシェーンベルクの「グレの歌」よりはマシ)、いちおうそれなりに綺麗にリプリントされています。しかし原版のかすれなどは仕方ないとしても、印刷ににじみがあったり色が灰色っぽく薄くなっていたりするページがありました。普通のスコアでもこういうことがあると見にくいのに何十段もあるエレクトラだとかなりマイナス点になってしまいます。そのほかの点はよいので星４つ。スコアのなかのドイツ語の英語訳はあり(Doppelgriff, double stopのように)。もちろん台詞、ト書きなどはドイツ語のみ。