MusiCosa
Why Sounding Librettos and Music Guides?
Wagners operas contain many musical mysteries.
How can a musical layman decipher these mysteries?
A score alone is too abstract and sound samples from a CD without a visual
support of a note sample can hardly be understood.
But when a Leitmotif was heard and visually recognized, it can be understood
and memorized. This audiovisual approach is the concept of the Sounding Librettos by MusiCosa Publishing.
The Sounding Librettos reproduce the full text of
the score and supplement it with all the
composer's directions with the leitmotifs noted on the margin.
The included Web App of the leitmotifs allow listening to the audio samples on
smartphone or a PC and complete the musical experience.
Music guides (currently in translation) give a brief introduction to the contents of
Wagner's works, explaining the leitmotifs and their musical-psychological contexts.
From the accompanying audio CD or the WebApp the music samples can be heard and the
explanations can be easily understood.
Sounding Libretto – Mastersingers
The Mastersinger of Nuremberg was published as the first volume in the Sounding Librettos series of Musicosa Publishing
- The libretto is bilingual, on one page the German original text, on the opposite site the English translation.
- All leitmotifs are written down in the margins and can be followed when listening to the WebApp.
- The leitmotifs are clearly arranged on music boards.
- An audio example was recorded for each leitmotif, which can be played using the included WebApp.
Content
- 354 pages
- 53 leitmotif scores and audio samples, playable in a web browser on a PC or in a WebApp on a smart phone.
With the Sounding Libretto you will gain deep insights into the wonderful
World of Richard Wagner's emotional guides. Find out more...
