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. (For mp3 files of excerpts from Inanna click here.) All files copyright © 2003 by John Craton (ASCAP) INANNA Overture          1-35 Prologue          36-47 ACT I Scene 1 (Inanna’s garden)          48-93  [In the first days]          94-144  [I, the Lady]      Ballet: “The Huluppu Tree”          145-191 Scene 1 (continued)          192-216  [Geshtinanna’s morning song]          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?]          362-378  [Great Lady]          379-423  [Behold, my queen / Make your milk sweet / Heart to heart] 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] Intermezzo 1: “Elegy for Inanna”          546-565 Scene 2 (Pantomime; later the Underworld)          566-606  [Ninshubur’s lamentation]          607-648  [Oh, my inside!]          649-719  [Inanna is resurrected] ACT III Intermezzo 2: “Inanna Returns from the Underworld”          722-739 Scene 1 (Inanna’s temple)          740-819  [Pour the beer / For a time beyond counting] Intermezzo 3: “Dumuzi Is Taken to the Underworld”          820-841 Scene 2 (Inanna’s temple)          842-899  [Inanna and Geshtinanna lament Dumuzi’s fate] Intermezzo 4: “The Search for Dumuzi”          900-930 Scene 3 (The steppe) & Epilogue          931-988  [Dumuzi’s rescue]          989-1034  [Inanna’s exaltation / Epilogue] RETURN to catalogue.