Salome – Dance of the 7 Veils

[r-pista]

Quick note query:

Letter T- 3rd beat: Is the top note in the group of 6 supposed to be a D# or a C#?

My part has D#, but the orchestra sound like they are playing C#

I’ve not played this in orchestra so haven’t been able to check the score.

[harp guy]

I checked a copy that has been scanned into the Petrucci Music Library, and it has a C#. This was only the harp part however. (I didn’t want to go through the score for the entire opera!).

Here is a link to the part: http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/2/28/IMSLP54206-PMLP03532-StraussR-7Veils.Harp.pdf

Here is a link where you can see the scores:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Salome,_Op.54_(Strauss,_Richard)#Full_Scores

And note, these are all online legally. These are parts and scores that have expired copyrights.

[Harp One]

Your ears are correct. 🙂
It is C#.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

I remember that Professor Elizabeth Richter did an extensive editing of the harp parts for that. We used copies from the Metropolitan Opera House in harp class, and they were a complete mess, with so many decades of fingerings and pedalings. You could never get a clear view of it that way.

[emily-granger]

You wouldn’t happen to have a copy of her edits would you? My part is a mess!!

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

I do, but it is mixed up with all my other versions. Ask her for a copy.

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