The Recovery of Ezra Pound's Third Opera: Collis O Heliconii

The Recovery of Ezra Pound's Third Opera: Collis O Heliconii (settings of poems by Catullus and Sappho) First edition of 200, commentary with music scores. By Margaret Fisher Part I. Analysis of Pound's musical treatment of his favored poems of antiquity: Catullus carmen LXI ("Collis O Heliconii") and Sappho, fragment 1 ("Poikilothron' athanat' Aphrodita"). Part II. The engraved performance edition for violin and voice includes excerpts from the 2 principal arias, 3 incidental numbers, a transcription of Pound's unfinished translation of Carmen LXI and Pound's scenario for his dramatic setting of the Catullan poem.