![]() ![]() ![]() One example of a modern idea is, in the projected scoring for the "Hymn to Tanit" (Act 2, Scene 2), the abundance and variety of percussion, in addition to a mixture of pianos, harps, and glockenspiels of a sort which only reappeared fifty years later. Mussorgsky's orchestration in Salammbô is quite ahead of its time. The theme of this passage, accompanying a new text, was recycled in 1877 in the chorus Joshua. In Mathô's monologue in the dungeon (the passage "I shall die alone"), the text is borrowed from the poem Song of the Captive Iroquois, by Alexander Polezhayev. The chorus of priestesses and warriors (Act 2, Scene 2, Episode 3: "After the theft of the Zaimph") is a reworking of the "Scene in the Temple: Chorus of the People", the only surviving number from Oedipus in Athens (1858-1861), Mussorgsky's earliest stage-work. 1 in the library of the Paris Conservatory, but this version has disappeared. Zoltán Peskó claims to have found a Mussorgsky orchestration of No. Two numbers (No.2 and No.5) were orchestrated by the composer. ![]()
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