"Goblin Market: Cantata" [Emanuel Aguilar]

"Goblin Market: Cantata" [Emanuel Aguilar]

First line of lyrics: Morning and evening

Aguilar, Emanuel Abraham; music (English, 1824-1904)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; adapted text (English, 1830-1894)

Aguilar, Emanuel Abraham; adapted text (English, 1824-1904)

1880 [publication]

London: Hutchings & Romer

genre: cantata|choral music

solo: treble voice

chorus: SSA chorus

duet: two treble voices

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Goblin Market"

Notes about the text: "The Words adapted by permission of the Authoress, Christina Rossetti" (title page). Rossetti met personally with Emanuel Aguilar to discuss the textual revisions to her poem, and she gave her explicit approval to the adapted and abridged text of “Goblin Market” that serves as Aguilar's libretto. The libretto is thus an authorially approved variant text of "Goblin Market."

Tempo markings: "Allegretto"; quarter note = 132

Performance instructions: Cantata for solo voice, chorus, and piano, consisting of an instrumental introduction and seven numbers: "Introduction" (p. 1); 1. Chorus with Solos, "Come Buy, Come Buy" (pp. 2-17); 2. Duet [Lizzie and Laura], "Dear, You Should Not Stay So Late" (pp. 18-22); 3. Chorus, "Sleep Song" (pp. 23-25); 4. Solo [Laura], "Early in the Morning" (pp. 26-29); 5. Solo [Lizzie], "'Woe is Me' (A week later.)" (pp. 30-32); 6. A--Appearance of the Goblins, B--Chorus with Solo [Lizzie] "'Look at our apples' (Lizzie's Interview With the Goblins)" (pp. 33-44); 7. [Lizzie, Laura and Chorus], Finale, "Laura! Come now in the Garden" (pp. 45-58).

Performance history:

Format 1: musical score

58 pages

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM39; Gooch and Thatcher 4430

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Record: CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar

File(s): CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar.pdf; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-covertitlepage.jpg; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-titlepage.jpg; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-index-p1.jpg; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-p14-top.jpg; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-pp16-17.jpg; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-p21.jpg; CRM-goblinmarket-aguilar-p22.jpg

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