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title: "I Pagliacci: Libretto (G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos)"
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# I Pagliacci: Libretto (G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos)

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I Pagliacci: Libretto (G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos)

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## Customer Reviews

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    A typical Schirmer piano-vocal score in paperback--not perfect but relatively inexpensive, hardy and practical
  

*by L***L on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016*

This is a typical paperback edition of a Schirmer piano-vocal score for a standard repertory opera.  As such, it is legibly printed on high quality paper stock.  It is fairly light to carry and convenient to handle. By some book-binderish sleight-of-hand, Schirmer scores can be placed above the  keyboard of a piano and (after a minimal period of break-in) be expected to remain open at the correct page  I can report from both my own personal experiences and those of other singers, that Schirmer  vocal scores are fairly formidable pieces of book-making which will typically last from initial study, during all the rehearsals and through several years of performance without falling apart--although, of course, a volume so often consulted, so casually set aside and so hastily snatched up sooner or later acquires a raffish and slightly battered, if pleasingly indomitable appearance.  I notice that fellow singers and I can generally recognize our personal copies at a glance over considerable distances, even though, as may be seen from the illustrations of editions for other operas, Schirmer scores when new are as alike as so many peas in a pod.Schirmer scores have, among singers whom I know, a reputation for generally being of acceptable reliability but, nevertheless, tend to be considered less authoritative than, say, Ricordi scores.  In the rough and tumble of preparing for actual performances, virtually every Schirmer opera score that I have encountered has disclosed some peculiar oddity--a misprint, a mis-attribution of a couple of of words or bars to an incorrect singer, that sort of thing.  In the case of this particular opera, for example, the title appears as "I pagliacci" on the cover but as "Pagliacci" on the title page, the generally accepted correct title.Rehearsals have not yet begun for the production for which I purchased tthis score, but I haven't the slightest doubt that substantial time will be diverted to page 205, upon which appear the words, "La commedia e finita!"  They are assigned to the lead tenor, Canio.  This attribution is both traditional and soothing to the (sometimes) swollen ego of the tenor singing Canio.  It is also dead wrong.  Those words are an epilogue as much as the opening words of the opera are a prologue and both are plainly intended to be uttered by the jealous and malignant bartone, Tonio.Schirmer scores tend to include so-called "singing translations" printed beneath the words of the libretto in the original language. This particular edition of "Pagliacci" presents them in the same font as the original Italian--thank heaven!--and not in the more difficult to read italic fonts used in  some earlier editions.  Singing translations are not close translations of the original words but instead are paraphrases that give the general sense of the text while devoting much effort to the oiginal speech rhythms set to music and to using appropriate vowel sounds for the benefit of the singers..The translation here is by Joseph Machlis and dates from 1963.  Perhaps the most famous words in the opera appear in Italian as, "Vesti la giubba e la faccia infarina.  La gente paga e rider vuole qua.  E se Arlecchin t'invola Columbina, ridi, Pagliaccio e ognun appaudira!"  Machlis renders this as"On with your costume and your face brightly painted.  Your public pays you and they must be amused.  Though Columbine and Harlequin betray you, laugh, clown, be merry and they will all applaud!"  Fair enough, but if I were doing Canio in his white face and whiter coat instead of Beppe, the Harlequin, this is the meaning for those famous lines that I would carry in my head;"Throw on your clown suit and whiten your face with flour.  The people pay and they want to laugh. And if Harlequin steals your Columbine, laugh, Pagliaccio, and  always they'll applaud!"

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    Love the edition but not the book
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019*

Arrived on time, however the condition wasn’t the best. Had a significant crease in the binding in the middle of the book. I also think it was one of the older editions because the paper was a different color and thicker than other ones I had received before. Still, I kept the book and love playing through it.

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    I would have enjoyed the book better without the nottions here and there
  

*by F***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2018*

I would have enjoyed the book better without the nottions here and there.  I already know how the actors are supposed to act and it was very distracting.  But I love the book on the whole.

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