a| eng

a| sop alt ten bar bass

4| cmp a| Johnson, Tom 9| 15706

a| The Four Note Opera

a| New York b| Associated Music Publisher c| 1973

a| 128 pages

a| Inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s meta-theatre, composer Tom Johnson wrote a piece for a group of singers who have only four notes at their disposal (A, B, D and E) and couldn’t sing about anything other than the opera they are now performing in. Of course, such is an impossible situation: the opera ends in utter rigidity.

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a| Opera 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1344 9| 2468

c| SCO

a| partituur

b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.SCO S JOHN

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