Seascape : overture to Moby Dick, an opera in 2 acts / by Richard Brooks. c1987.

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Seascape : overture to Moby Dick, an opera in 2 acts / by Richard Brooks. c1987.

1 ms. score (27 p.), bound ; 43 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7001379

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Brooks, Richard, 1942-

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Richard Brooks was born in upstate New York in 1942. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from the State University of New York at Potsdam, a Master of Arts in music composition from Binghamton University, and a Ph.D. in composition from New York University. He was a member of the music faculty of Nassau Community College from 1975 until 2004, and has served in numerous professional organizations, while composing and arranging over one hundred works for a variety of audience...

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...