Trois partitions pour piano a quatre mains
Subtitle: Sylvia : ballet en trois actes
By: Léo Delibes ; réduction concertante d'après l'orchestre par Renaud de Vilbac
Contributors: Vilbac, Renaud de, 1829-1884 arranger of music
Published: 1884
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Ballets; Piano scores (4 hands)
Other titles: 3 partitions pour piano a 4 mains
Work titles: Sylvia;
Notes: For piano, 4 hands. Originally for orchestra.

Ballet in 3 acts.

Includes table of contents preceding score.

Date estimated from plate number. Source: http://imslp.org/wiki/Heugel/Dating

"Ménestrel" was a weekly music journal published by Heugel et Cie from 1839 to 1940. Source: http://imslp.org/wiki/Heugel

Title page has 5 cm wide border of orange, green, and brown, depicting musical instruments, leaves, shields, and branches. A lyre appears at top center, crossed instruments with bows in each corner, and masks inside circles on each side.

Includes stage directions in French above staves.

staff notation.

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BYU copy bound in paper with brown taped spine. Cover title: "Sylvia: ballet en 3 actes; partitions pour piano à quatre mains. Léo Delibes".

BYU copy stamped on lower right of table of contents with black ink in double circle: "Au Menestrel, 2bis. rue Vivienne" with "Heugel & Cie." inside the circle.

John Laurence Seymour Fund.
Table of contents: title: [Acte I]: Prélude; title: Faunes et dryades, scherzo; title: Le berger, pastorale; title: Les chasseresses, fanfare; title: Valse lente; title: Scène; title: Cortège rustique; title: Scène; title: Entrée du sorcier.; title: [Acte II]: Entr'acte; title: La grotte d'Orion; title: Pas des ethiopiens; title: Chant bachique; title: Scène et danse de la Bacchante; title: Scène finale.; title: [Acte III]: Marche et cortège de Bacchus; title: Scène et barcarolle; title: Divertissement (Pizzicati, Andante, Pas des esclaves, Variation-valse, Strett-galop); title: La temple de Diane; title: Apparition d'Endymion.