Bonis: Songe De Cléopâtre, Op. 180

Composer: Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937) Editor: Christine Géliot Format: Full Score Instrumentation: Orchestra Work: Le Songe de Cléopâtre (Cleopatra's Dream), Op. 180 Binding: Spiral Bound ISMN: 9790501822928 Size: 11.0 x 16.9 inches Pages: None Description Scoring: 3.2(E-Hrn).2.2.-4.2.3.0., Timp, Cymb., 2 Hrp, Str The piece belongs to the cycle: Trois Femmes de légende: Ophélie, Salomé, Le Songe de Cléopâtre. All pieces of the Femmes de légende combine a special musical mood: their profound, richly imaginative and vital inspiration and their impressionistic descriptive, orientalized character. The cycle concludes with this complex and passionate piece. with its original and elegant harmonies, its yearning rhythms, its sensuality and its Oriental-colored moments, this piece has all the characteristics of the great works of the composer's maturity.