Puccini — Madame Butterfly: Valentina Ciardelli — PDF Sheet Music

Puccini — Madame Butterfly: Valentina Ciardelli — PDF Sheet MusicPart of Valentina's Short Vocal Work Collection, Coro a Bocca Chiusa serves as the transitional piece between Acts Two and Three of Giacomo Puccinis opera Madama Butterfly. In this scene, Butterfly waits silently for Pinkerton as night falls, only to be emotionally devastated when he arrives with his new wife. In this arrangement, the beautiful, wordless melody of the chorus has been simplified and skillfully transcribed for double bass and piano by

singing about her love for the play’s protagonist

The scores for this sonata and a number of others were placed in the library of the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford at the end of the seventeenth century

This edition is edited in the original tonality

5 was written in 2005 in the sunny atmosphere of the Côte d’Azur in France

Instrumentation:

the piece is adapted into a new key

Originally composed for female voice and piano

Likely written during Bach’s time in Leipzig in the late 1730s and early 1740s

A high version is also available

Over 3 hours of content

4 Double Bass parts clean (no bowings or fingering)

and the text in the original version is written from Solveig’s perspective