The Canterbury Pilgrims: Portraits Chosen from the Prologue to Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Set to Music for Chorus, Orchestra & Three Soloists (Soprano, Tenor & Baritone).
- Author / Editor
- Dyson, George, composer.
The Canterbury Pilgrims: Portraits Chosen from the Prologue to Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Set to Music for Chorus, Orchestra & Three Soloists (Soprano, Tenor & Baritone).
- Published
- London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Original composition 1930. Reprinted several times.
- Physical Description
- Vocal score; 151 pp.
- Description
- Includes scoring for oratorio of fifteen cantatas: GP I, GP II, Knight, Squire, Nun, Monk, Clerk of Oxenford, Guildsmen and the Merchant, Sergeant at Law and Franklin, Shipman, Physician, Wife of Bath, Parson, and L'Envoi. Performed and recorded recurrently, with an additional overture ("At the Tabard Inn") and conclusion ("In Honour of the City").
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Film
General Prrologue to the Canterbury Tales