The Dinosaur, O.97 (Verotta, Davide)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	10 songs
Composition Year	2021
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the piano; English language; Italian language

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Complete Performance
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Publisher Info.	Davide Verotta, 2021.
Performers	Amy Foote, soprano, Ian Scarfe, piano
Copyright	Creative Commons Zero 1.0 [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Recording times: 0:10 Prologue, 0:50 Il Dinosauro, 3:41 Afternoon on a Hill, 5:42 Il Dinosauro, 7:12 Being Young and Green, 9:25 Il Dinosauro, 11:04 Thursday, 13:21 Il Dinosauro, 16:08 The Concert, 18:22 Il Dinosauro, 20:54 Sonnet (Fragments)
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Complete Score
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Davide Verotta (2021/12/22)

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Work Title	Two Lives' Stories: Woman/Dinosaur
Alternative. Title	The Dinosaur
Composer	Verotta, Davide
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	O.97
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IDV 44
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	10 songs: Prologue (narrated) Il Dinosauro Afternoon on a Hill Il Dinosauro Being Young and Green Il Dinosauro Thursday Il Dinosauro The Concert Il Dinosauro Sonnet (Fragments)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	2021
First Performance.	2021/12/05
First Publication.	2021
Librettist	see below Composer Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
Language	Italian, English
Dedication	Amy Foote
Average DurationAvg. Duration	23 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Modern
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	soprano, piano
Extra Information	The Dinosaur is a cantata for soprano and pianoforte that was inspired by a recurrent visit to the local Academy of Sciences that hosts the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The cantata alternates between two story narratives. The first concerns a dinosaur and develops from a museum visit into a musing about impermanence, into an invective against the passing of time. The second is a partial portrait of a woman, mostly concerned with youth and love and art. The dinosaur poem is in Italian and is written by the composer, borrowing the form from the poem "Dinosaur Skeleton" by Wislawa Szymborska. The woman’s portrait is sketched using a selection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.