Una Voce Poco Fa from "Barber of Seville"

Gioacchino Rossini

Gioacchino Rossini (arr. Edgar L. Barrow)

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This title translates from the Italian as "a voice a little while ago."

General Info

Year: 1816 / 1973
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts - $75.00 | Score Only - $18.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass

Solo Voice

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution, is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione) took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.

Rossini's Barber has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". Even after two hundred years, its popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness.

The aria Una Voce Poco Fa is a cavatina from Act I, Scene 2. A cavatina is a musical term, originally meaning a short song of simple character, without a second strain or any repetition of the air. It is now frequently applied to any simple, melodious air, as distinguished from brilliant arias or recitatives, many of which are part of a larger movement or scena in oratorio or opera.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

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State Ratings

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Performances

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United States Coast Guard Academy Band (New London, Conn.) (Adam Williamson, conductor; Megan Weikleenget, soprano) – 5 May 2019
San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Wind Orchestra (Brian Asher Alhadeff, conductor) - 31 May 2015

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1829/2009)
William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1829/2005)

All Wind Works

Barber of Seville (arr. Meyrelles) (1816/1899)
Barber of Seville, The (arr. Williams) (1816/2005)
Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Lake) (1816/1927)
Barber of Seville Overture, The (arr. Duthoit) (1816/1940)
The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Singleton) (1816/2002)
Figaro in Stereo (adapt. Yoder) (1970)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (arr. Cesarini) (1816/2011)
Inflammatis from "Stabat Mater" (arr. Laurendeau and Meyrelles) (1842/1911)
Introduction, Theme and Variations (arr. Tamanini) (1819/2017)
Italian en Argel
Italian in Algiers (arr. Cailliet) (1952)
La Boutique Fantasque (arr. Respighi; tr. Mahaffey) (2009)
La Boutique Fantasque (adapt. Respighi; arr. Godfrey) (1922)
La Cenerentola (arr. Daehn) (1817/2007)
La Danza (arr. Erickson) (1835/1967)
La Gazza Ladra (tr. Cailliet) (1817/1954)
La Gazza Ladra (arr. Molenaar) (1817/2000)
L'italiana in Algeri (tr. Sedlak; ed. Lonoce) (1813/1992)
L'italiana in Algeri (tr. Van der Beek) (1813/2008)
March for the Sultan Abdul Medjid (arr. Townsend) (1851/1967)
Overture from the Opera "La Gazza Ladra" (arr. Oliver) (1817)
Overture to "The Barber of Seville" (arr. Sedlak) (1816/1983)
Overture to "The Italian Girl in Algiers" (arr. Cailliet) (1813/1952)
Overture to "The Italian Girl in Algiers" (tr Moses-Tobani) (tr. Mose-Tobani) (1813/1898)
Passo a sei (tr. Dunnigan)
Scherzo for Band (scored by Schaefer) (1864/1977)
Semiramide (arr. Safranek; ed. Robertson) (1823/1939)
Soirées musicales (arr. Britten and Brown) (1830-1835/1946)
String Quartet No. 1
Tancredi Overture (tr. Falcone) (1813/1975)
Three Marches for the Marriage of the Duke of Orléans (ed. Townsend) (1827/1972)
Una Voce Poco Fa from "Barber of Seville" (arr. Barrow) (1816/1973)
William Tell Overture (tr. Sousa and Schissel) (1829/2014)
William Tell Overture (arr. Elkus) (1829/1988)
William Tell Overture (arr. Leidzen) (1829/1938)
William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1829/2009)
William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1829/2005)

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