Salome in Full Score施特劳斯《莎乐美》全谱

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980) offers ample reason why the complete score to Strauss' Salome is worthy of study: "It is virtuoso display of the creation of atmospheric colour by instrumental means."There are, of course, other reasons--it is enough to say that since opening night (9 December 1905) it has ranked among the basic works of 20th-century music.
Salome (after the Oscar Wilde play) was Richard Strauss' first great operatic success, and like many of his works, caused controversy. The problem was that Strauss succeeded too well in capturing what fin-de-siecle decadence was seen in Wilde--succeeded via an "instrumental inventiveness that is breathtaking" (Grove). The orchestral virtuosity is vividly apparent in the parts for percussion and for certain less commonly used instruments--heekelphone (here first introduced), xylophone, contrabassoon--which found their raison d'etre in Salorne.
There can be no question that this edition presents the definitive score. It reprints Strauss' own copy, obtained on loan from the vaults of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester--a large-sized, limited, numbered edition signed by his pub-lisher, and very likely the one Strauss used on the conducting podium. For this edition the cast and instrumentation information has been translated into English; with clear notes, wide margins and durable binding, this inexpensive reprint will serve many years on the podium, music stand or library shelf, enabling musicians and listeners to discover its beauties (including Salome's famous Dance of the Seven Veils) for themselves. It is the authoritative way to experience, in the words of one critic, "the most febrile opera or music-drama ever written."
Dover (1981) republication of Adolph Ffirstner edition, Berlin, 1905, limited, numbered, signed by publisher. English translation of cast and instrumentation. 352pp. 93/8X121/4. Paperbound.