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Four Saints in Three Acts

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Music by Virgil Thomson and libretto by Gertrude Stein. Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock & Charles Fussell. Preface, lv p. From the Music of the United States of America Series, Vol. 18 and the Recent Researches in American Music Series. This critical edition features the scenario by Maurice Grosser and is based on the full score that Thomson commissioned from copyist Ben Weber for his 1947-48 revision; it includes the 32-measure orchestral prelude to the Act II Dance of the Angels, and it makes comparisons primarily to the manuscript scores held at the Library of Congress and Yale University. The critical apparatus applies as much to the music as to the Stein text, the principal source for which is the 1929 first publication. Full score, 447 p.