Stravinsky: Renard, histoire burlesque chantée et jouée K023

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$499.95
SKU MM-0034
Weight 3.00 LBS
Stock
Difficulty Intermediate/Advanced
Instrumentation Fl d.Picc, Ob d.CA, Cl, Bsn, 2Hn, Tpt, Cymbalom, Timp, perc, 2Vln, 1Vla, 1Vc, 1Cb
Duration 17 minutes
Set of Parts Includes 1x Full Score, 1x Vocal Score and 1 part of each instrument
Score Type Required

Renard: histoire burlesque chantée et jouée, or The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played, is a chamber opera-ballet for four male voices and 16 instrumentalists written in 1916 by Igor Stravinsky. Its original Russian text, by the composer, derives from a folk tale as collected by Alexander Afanasyev — but the piece has no name in Russian, being titled generically instead as Байка про лису, петуха, кота да барана, or Tale of the Fox, the Cock, the Cat and the Ram. (As with the composer's previous stage work, The Nightingale, this burlesque tale is known by its French name despite being wholly Russian.) The premiere took place in a French translation in Paris on 18 May 1922.

This is a moralizing story, a farmyard fairy tale about Reynard the Fox, who deceives the Cock, the Cat and the Goat; but in the end they catch and punish him. The Cock is twice tricked and captured by the Fox, only to be rescued each time by the Cat and the Goat. After the Cock's second rescue, the Cat and the Goat strangle the Fox, and the three friends dance and sing. It also contains a slight irony relating to religion and the church – to be invulnerable the Fox wears the black gown of the nun (nuns used the privilege of inviolability in Russia).

As in his later ballet Les noces, Stravinsky employs here the singers as part of the orchestra, and the vocal parts are not identified with specific characters.

Difficulty:
Intermediate/Advanced
Instrumentation:
Fl d.Picc, Ob d.CA, Cl, Bsn, 2Hn, Tpt, Cymbalom, Timp, perc, 2Vln, 1Vla, 1Vc, 1Cb
Duration:
17 minutes
Set of Parts:
Includes 1x Full Score, 1x Vocal Score and 1 part of each instrument