Inanna: An Opera of Ancient Sumer

Click on the links below to access the Scorch scores. The page numbers given are for the revised orchestral score. These files have been adjusted for better playback and in some cases are difficult to read on screen. They are raw scores I used in the process of composition and are not authoritative. Some are C scores while others are transposed. A few slight modifications were made to the revised score, but for the most part the scores here are essentially the same musically as those in the final printed version. Please write if you have any questions or problems viewing or listening to these files. All files copyright © 2003 by John Craton (ASCAP) INANNA Click on page numbers at left to view raw scores (Scorch plugin required), or click the [mp3] link to listen to selected excerpts (Sibelius playback). Overture          1-35 [mp3] Prologue          36-47 ACT I Scene 1 (Inanna’s garden)          48-93  [In the first days] [mp3]          94-144  [I, the Lady]      Ballet: “The Huluppu Tree”          145-191 [mp3] Scene 1 (continued)          192-216  [Geshtinanna’s morning song] [mp3]          217-222  [Good morrow]          223-250  [You know your sister / No husband for Inanna]          251-281  [Inanna discovers the squatters / Inanna’s throne] Scene 2 (Inanna’s temple)          282-329  [Your flower blossoms]          330-361  [Who will plow my vulva?] [mp3]          362-378  [Great Lady]          379-423  [Behold, my queen / Make your milk sweet / Heart to heart] [mp3] of “Behold, My queen” only ACT II Scene 1 (The pathway to the Underworld; later the Underworld)          426-441  [Word came to Inanna]          442-473  [Seven gates to the Underworld]          474-545  [Inanna before Ereshkigal] [mp3] Intermezzo 1: “Elegy for Inanna”          546-565 [mp3] Scene 2 (Pantomime; later the Underworld)          566-606  [Ninshubur’s lamentation]          607-648  [Oh, my inside!] [mp3]          649-719  [Inanna is resurrected] ACT III Intermezzo 2: “Inanna Returns from the Underworld”          722-739 [mp3] Scene 1 (Inanna’s temple)          740-819  [Pour the beer / For a time beyond counting] [mp3] of “Pour the Beer” only Intermezzo 3: “Dumuzi Is Taken to the Underworld”          820-841 [mp3] Scene 2 (Inanna’s temple)          842-899  [Inanna and Geshtinanna lament Dumuzi’s fate] Intermezzo 4: “The Search for Dumuzi”          900-930 [mp3] Scene 3 (The steppe) & Epilogue          931-988  [Dumuzi’s rescue] [mp3]          989-1034  [Inanna’s exaltation / Epilogue] [mp3] RETURN to catalogue.