The Creation in Full Score (Dover Miniature Scores)
by Joseph Haydn

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Book Reviews of The Creation in Full Score (Dover Miniature Scores)

Book Review: Definitely worth owning if you love this music
Summary: 4 Stars

The text is legible, but not outstandingly so. I would guess that Dover reduced a full-size conductor's score slightly, to piano-music size. But the result is far more legible than a miniature score of the kind sold by Eulenberg would be.

Note that this score is for the purpose of study and following along while you listen. For actual performances, a choral singer would need a normal choral part (various publishers) with a piano reduction, as the previous reviewer noted. This Dover score would involve too many page turns for a singer, and in addition the tenor part is given in an old musical clef that would cause most tenors trouble in reading.

The words are in German with an English version directly underneath. This reflects the composer's original intention: since he had a enthusiastic following in both Austria and England, Haydn insisted that his librettist (Gottfried van Swieten) provide a metrical translation of the German words into English for the first edition. Van Swieten, though not a fluent English speaker, gamely complied, and the occasionally-amusing result is reproduced here.

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