Among Berlioz's best-loved works. Settings of Summer Nights, poems by
Théophile Gautier, with French, English, and German singing texts. This
Dover edition includes the corresponding vocal score (voice and piano),
which can serve as a rehearsal addendum. Contents: 1. Villanelle
(popular street song); 2. Le spectre de la rose (The wraith of a rose);
3. Sur les lagunes (On the lagoons); 4. Absence; 5. Au cimetière (In the
graveyard); and L'île inconnue (The unknown island). New Dover
compilation of the orchestral score originally published by Breitkopf &
Härtel, Leipzig, 1900-07, together with the corresponding vocal score,
originally published by Costallat & Cie, Paris [ca. 1834].
Instrumentation.