Hassan - complete incidental music

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: Prelude. Slow – Quietly but expressively

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: We are in old Baghdad (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scenes 1 & 2: Interlude between

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Moonlight. The street of Felicity, by the fountain of the two pigeons, in from of the house

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: It is later that night (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Serenade. Con moto moderato

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: The shutters open, and Yasmin appears (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Melos. Hassan falls under the shadow of the fountain. The first light of dawn shines in the sky. Very quietly

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Chorus behind the scenes. Not too slow

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: The first light of dawn shines in the sky (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Prelude. With animation

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: The filthy, inanimate bulk of Hassan… (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Fanfare preceding the Ballet (Gaily, outside)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 1, Dance of the Beggars. There enters the most awful selection of Eastern beggars the eye could imagine. Quick and vigorously

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: And then, after the Beggars (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 2, Chorus of Women. (Enter a band of fair and dusky beauties.) Quietly

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 3, Divertissement. Con moto

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Rafi is then announced as The King of the Beggars (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 4, General Dance. Andante moderato – Allegro – Più mosso

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Rafi is asked why he hates the Caliph so (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls (from behind the scene, after the descent of the iron curtain). Comodo

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: This House of the Moving Walls… (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: The Street of Felicity. Very quietly

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: The SOS message has fallen from the balcony… (Narrator)

Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: Music accompanying Ishak’s poem. Not too slow