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MUSIC & ACTION<br />
MALE: *CHARACTER voice only<br />
FEMALE<br />
→ L→ DOWN LEFT STEPS AND ONTO STAGE → R → DOWN RIGHT STEPS AND OUT OF SIGHT<br />
♫ MUSIC<br />
ALL MUSIC TO BE COMPOSED<br />
EXCEPT FOR VEXILLA REGIS C34 1<br />
ACTION<br />
THE DARK WOOD & THE HILL<br />
Darkness, then Sun spotlight on Dante (D)<br />
He tells of his journey as something done.<br />
Nel mezzo del cammin…the other things I saw there.<br />
C1 1-9<br />
NIGHT SOUNDS Sun spotlight → Moon, through clouds C1 9<br />
D: I cannot rightly say..leopard..lion..she-wolf.. C1 10-60<br />
D meets Virgil (V) Have pity on me…to be so<br />
saddened.<br />
C1 61-135<br />
INVOCATION RESPONSE: OVERTURE?<br />
ANCIENT/ARCHAIC GREEK, TO CHRISTIAN<br />
BE-A-TRI-CE MOTIF<br />
MOTIF BASED ON THE 4 SYLLABLES<br />
OF HER NAME, PERHAPS<br />
CORRESPONDING TO THE PITCH OF<br />
THEIR VOWELS:<br />
-- --<br />
IN LATER SEGMENTS THE MOTIF MAY BE<br />
DEVELOPED.<br />
INFERNAL: DIRE, WITHOUT HUMAN<br />
SOUNDS: SOFT, BECOMING LOUDER<br />
I and one alone…MUSES – ALL invoked. C2 1-9<br />
Sun spotlight on MUSES. off C2 7<br />
Poet, who guides me…I am not Aeneas…not Paul…<br />
V: …cowardly fear…A lady… blessed…beautiful…<br />
C2 10-53<br />
◙ Heavenly spotlight on BEATRICE (BEA) C2 53<br />
D: Bice! Beatrice! La donna mia! SONNET C2 114<br />
BEA: O anima cortese…Lucy…who hear it.<br />
D & V: →R→ DOWN RIGHT STEPS<br />
MUSES – ALL follow down<br />
C2 137<br />
→R→ C2 140<br />
C3 1<br />
THE GATE OF HELL C3 1-12<br />
D: & V: Through me to the eternal city…abandon<br />
all hope you who enter here.<br />
INFERNAL: loud note C3 9<br />
MISERABLE MODE:<br />
SIGHS, WHIRLWIND, GROANS, FAINT HOWLS<br />
INFERNAL:<br />
(NOT MISERABLE MODE BECAUSE VOICES<br />
ARE DESCRIBED)<br />
V: Here all uncertainty…cowardice dead. C3 15<br />
D & V approach lower steps C3 22-<br />
→ R→ Master, what is this…undone so many. C3 32-78<br />
V: ...on the sad strand of Acheron. C3 78<br />
→ L→<br />
12<br />
CHARON & *SOULS/SOULS C3 78<br />
V: …what is willed is done: ask no more. C3 78-96<br />
V: But those spirits who has no fear of God. C3 100-108<br />
INFERNAL: briefly between D & V C3 108<br />
D: Ma quell’ anime…come augel per suo richiamo C3 100-117<br />
INFERNAL: brief rise and fall C3 106<br />
INFERNAL: dies away<br />
D: So they vanish on the dark water…of his words. C3 118-129