Respighi: Metamorphoseon
$150.00 - $650.00
Dating from 1927, the work is based on music from 18th-century and represents an attempt to transcribe birdsong into musical notation.
The work is in five movements:
"Prelude" (based on music of Bernardo Pasquini)
"La colomba" ("The dove"; based on music of Jacques de Gallot)
"La gallina" ("The hen"; based on music of Jean-Philippe Rameau)
"L’usignuolo" ("The nightingale"; based on the folksong 'Engels Nachtegaeltje' transcribed by Jacob van Eyck)
"Il cucù" ("The cuckoo"; based on music of Pasquini)