"Holy Innocents (a lullaby)" [Stefano Puri]
First line of lyrics: Sleep, little baby sleep
genre: choral music|song|sacred music|Christmas music
Rossetti poem(s): "Holy Innocents" ("Sleep, little Baby, sleep")
Notes about the text: In the song, the word "around" replaces "surround" in line 10 of the poem.
Tempo markings: "Calmo ed espressivo, un poco rubato, sulla parola"; quarter note = 54
Performance instructions: "1. da battuta 31, i soprani si dispongono dietro al coro (a semicerchio) oppure - qualora lo spazio dell'esecuzione lo permetta, in cerchio attorno al pubblico. | 2. da battuta 35 circa, individualmente senza tempo, ciascun soprano intona (aleatoriamente) la propria parte. | 3. battuta 35, dopo alcune ripetizioni, un soprano solista intona - partendo dal Si bemolle (4) - l'antifona gregoriana "IN PARADISUM" (cfr sotto) | 4. La solista dovrà porsi distante dal coro, possibilmente non visibile. | 5. Da battuta 41 circa, il coro, individualmente muta il suono "ow" (di "tomorrow") in un Bocca Chiusa.| 6. I soprani, individualmente, concludono la propria parte intonando (senza interrompere il suono) un Bocca chiusa sul Sib | 7.Il brano dunque dovrà concludersi con il canto della solista che si allontana progressivamente (Possibilmente PRIMA della sua naturale conclusione), mentre il resto del coro intona il B.C. - L'antifona può essere anche interrotta senza giungere a conclusione" [1. From measure 31, the sopranos are placed behind the choir (in a semicircle) or - if the space of the performance permits - in a circle around the audience. | 2. By around measure 35, individually timeless, each soprano sings (randomly) his own part. | 3. Measure 35, after a few repetitions, a solo soprano intones - starting from B flat (4) - the Gregorian antiphon "IN PARADISUM" (see below) | 4. The soloist must be distant from the choir, possibly not visible. | 5. From around measure 41, the choir, individually changes the sound "ow" (of "tomorrow") in a Mouth Closed. | 6. The sopranos, individually, conclude their part by intoning (without interrupting the sound) a closed Mouth on the Bb. | 7. The piece must therefore end with the song of the soloist who gradually moves away (possibly BEFORE its natural conclusion), while the rest of the choir intones the B.C. - The antiphon can also be interrupted without reaching a conclusion.] "In Paradisum" text/chant is sung by a solo soprano at the end.
Performance history: First performed by Notevolmente on 15 Dec. 2019 as part of a Christmas concert at Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. "Notevolmente - Holy innocents (a lullaby)." YouTube, uploaded by Notevolmente, 16 Dec. 2019, https://youtu.be/IKKJBGP6V4c. Accessed 4 Apr. 2023.
Puri, Stefano; music (Italian, born 1979)
Unknown; music (Gregorian "IN PARADISUM")
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Other data reference(s): "Holy Innocents (a lullaby) (Stefano Puri)." ChoralWiki. Uploaded by Stefano Puri, 5 Nov. 2018, www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Holy_Innocents_(a_lullaby)_(Stefano_Puri).
Cataloguer: Saeideh Rajabzadeh and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Musical score: ChoralWiki, www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Holy_Innocents_(a_lullaby)_(Stefano_Puri). Accessed 24 Sept. 2019.
"Holy Innocents" [source: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Holy_Innocents_(a_lullaby)_(Stefano_Puri)] by Stefano Puri [https://www.stefanopuri.com/], is licensed under the Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) License, https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/ChoralWiki:CPDL
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instrumentation: a cappella|keyboard (for rehearsal only)
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Composition history: "Commissioned by First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon, Mark Slegers, Minister of Music." Composed 9 Dec., 2008, Vancouver, B.C.
Performance instructions: "Flowing, with emotion." "*closed 'ah' | **some tenors may sing the baritone part"
Performance history: "Premiere: May 10, 2009, Portland, Oregon" ("Choral")
Recordings: "Roses on a Brier." Dawn of Night. Performance by University of Toronto MacMillan Singers, Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor, Centrediscs. "Roses on a Brier." ECS Publishing Group, www.morningstarmusic.com/roses-on-a-brier.html. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
Chatman, Stephen; music (Canadian, born 1950)
Other data reference(s): "Choral." Works. Stephen Chatman, https://www.drstephenchatman.com/works.html#choral. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Musical score: University of Victory Library, Victoria
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Roses on a Brier." ECS Publishing Group, www.morningstarmusic.com/roses-on-a-brier.html. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
2008 [composition]; 2009, 2011 [publication] [copyright]
"Copyright © 2011 by Highgate Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing, | Boston, Massachussetts. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved."
4 pages; performance time 2 minutes and 45 seconds
First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest
Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Place in the larger work: Third song of six in the song cycle called "Six Songs" which includes 1. "To the Storm-Wind" (P. B. Shelley); 2. "When as in Silks" (R. Herrick); 3. "When I am dead" (C. Rossetti); 4. "A Widow Bird" (P. B. Shelley); 5. "I fear thy Kisses" (P. B. Shelley); 6. "Soul of my Thought" (J. Dareing).
Notes: The sixth song of the cycle is with "'Words by Jane Dareing,' but it proves to be a very faithful English translation of the German version by von Holstein of Andersen's 'Ich liebe dich'. Grieg's most popular song." ("Reviews")
Other data reference(s): Record for "Six Songs ... 1. To the Storm-Wind. P. B. Shelley. 2. When as in Silks. R. Herrick. 3. When I am dead. C. Rossetti. 4. A Widow Bird. P. B. Shelley. 5. I fear thy Kisses. P. B. Shelley. 6. Soul of my Thought. J. Dareing." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004356842. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023. "Reviews." Musical News, 30 Aug. 1913, vol. 45, p. 180. Google Books. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
Musical score (manuscript): British Library, London
File(s): CRM-songwheniamdead-gerrard.pdf
"The Shepherds had an angel" [Robert Graham]
genre: Christmas music|sacred music|choral music|song
Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren" ("The shepherds had an angel")
Performance instructions: "Setting for sa, org. [organ] (of pf. [piano forte])" (Gooch and Thatcher 4321)
Graham, Robert; music (American, 1912-1992)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4321
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Record: CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-graham
First line of lyrics: Spring bursts today
genre: Easter music|sacred music|choral music|song|carol
instrumentation: a cappella|piano (for rehearsal only)
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the first stanza (ll. 1-2) of the poem, followed by line 6, then stanzas 6-9 (ll. 11-18) only. In line 2 of the poem, the phrase "earth's" is replaced by "world's" in the song.
Shaw, Geoffrey Turton; music (English, 1879-1943)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4365
Musical score: Rossetti, Christina, Geoffrey Shaw. "Spring bursts To=day." The Musical times, 1904-1995; Feb 1923; vol. 64, no. 960, p. 1-4. British Periodicals, Proquest, www.proquest.com/historical-periodicals/spring-bursts-day/docview/7787318/se-2?accountid=14701. Accessed 28 Jul. 2020.
London: Novello and Company, Limited; New York: The H. W. Gray Co.
"Copyright, 1923, by Novello and Company, Limited"
File(s): CRM-eastercarol-shawgeoffrey.pdf
First line of lyrics: They lie at rest, our blessed dead
Rossetti poem(s): "'They lie at rest, our blessed dead'"
Composition history: "Based on the hymn tune 'MELITA' by J. B. Dykes (1823-1876) and | 'All MEIN GEDANKEN' from the Lochheimer Liederbüch, ca. 1450."
Performance instructions: "Somber, but with motion"
Dedication: "In memory of Eleanor Fay, 1890-1971"
Binkerd, Gordon; music (American, 1916-2003)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4819
Musical score: Indiana University School of Music Library, Bloomington
"©Copyright 1973 by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. | Copyright for all countries. All rights reserved."
"By heart (Romantially)" [Judith Lang Zaimont]
instrumentation: English horn|cello|organ|percussion|snare drum|tubular bells|glockenspiel|timpani
Place in the larger work: The third movement of four in a work called "Rememberance" which includes I. "By Soul (Philosophically)" (William Shakespeare); II. "In good humor" (Sir John Suckling) and Psalms 47, 57, 66; III. "By heart (Romantically)" (Christina Rossetti); IV. "With open eyes" (Meditations [Gates of Repentance])" and Psalms 84, 96, 100.
Composition history: "Commissioned by the Portland Symphonic Choir" "Zaimont's 'Remembrance' was the central work, each of four movements intending to answer the question, 'How are the ways in which we remember?'" ("Choral Music")
Performance instructions: For soprano, mezzo and tenor soli, choir SSAATTBB, English horn, violoncello, organ and percussion (tympani, snare drum, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells)
Performance history: "First Performances: October 2007" ("Choral Music")
Zaimont, Judith Lang; music (American, born 1945)
Other data reference(s): "Choral Music." Judith Lang Zaimont Composer, https://www.judithzaimont.com/choral.html. Accessed 14 Mar. 2023. Record for "Remembrance: for soprano, mezzo and tenor soli, choir SSAATTBB, English horn, violoncello, organ and percussion (tympani, snare drum, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells), 2007." WorldCat, https://worldcat.org/en/title/489088233. Accessed 14 Mar. 2023.
complete larger work performance time 25 minutes
Place in the larger work: The sixth song of six in a song cycle called "The ages of love" which includes 1."Chaste love" (George Gordon, Lord Byron); 2. "Love's white heat" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 3. "Disdainful, fickle love" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 5. "An older love" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 6. "Love's echo" (Christina Rossetti).
Performance history: "First performance: Queens College, CUNY [City University of New York], March 1974." ("Vocal Music")
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
Other data reference(s): "Vocal Music." Judith Lang Zaimont, https://www.judithzaimont.com/vocal-music-complete.html. Accessed 14 Mar. 2023.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
complete song cycle performance time 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
First line of lyrics: I was a cottage maiden
Notes about the text: In this setting, the word "So" in line 15 and the complete lines 19 and 20 of the poem are omitted. The song ends with the additional phrase "So now I moan!."
Composition history: Composed in Berlin on 7 Jan. 2016.
Bachlund, Gary; music (American, born 1947)
Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
Cataloguer: Melissa Poon and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/Cousin_Kate_(Bachlund%2C_Gary). Accessed 1 Dec. 2018.
"Copyright © 2016 Gary Bachlund All international rights reserved. www.bachlund.org." Cousin Kate (Bachlund, Gary), imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/407439, by Gary Bachlund is licensed under IMSLP:Performance Restricted Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0, imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Performance_Restricted_Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs_3.0, based on the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license, imslp.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Attribution_Non-commercial_No_Derivatives_3.0, but with the added restriction of no performance allowed.
7 pages; performance time approximately 5 minutes and 45 seconds
"Bitter for Sweet" [R. Huntington Woodman]
First line of lyrics: Summer is gone with all its roses
Woodman, R. Huntington [Raymond Huntington]; music (American, 1861-1943)
Cataloguer: Melissa Poon, University of Ottawa
Musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Bitter_for_Sweet_(Woodman%2C_Raymond_Huntington). Accessed 1 Dec. 2018.
New York, London: G. Schirmer; Boston: The Boston Music Co.
First line of lyrics: It's a year almost that I have not seen her
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
other version 2 - instrumentation: piano
Notes about the text: In the lyrics, the words "well nigh" replace the word "surely" at the beginning of line 4 of the poem.
Performance history: Performed on 19 April 1907 at Chickering Hall, Boston, by Whilhelm Heinrich, tenor, accompanied by the composer at the piano. (Hale, p. 14)
Notes: For high voice in F; also available in medium voice in D and low voice in C. Except of the actual score, the first word of the title is spelled "Oh" instead of "O".
Whelpley, Benjamin; music (American, 1864-1946)
In reference to the published works below: IMSLP, "List of works by Benjamin Whelpley."
Other data reference(s): Hale, Philip. Dramatic and musical criticisms, p. 14, news clipping, 20 Apr. 1907 (scrapbook). Internet Archives, archive.org/details/dramaticmusicalc1907hale/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater. Accessed 14 Mar. 2023.
Cataloguer: Samuel Hacker and Roxanne Lafleur, Western University
Musical Score: IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana, https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/detail.do?action=detail&fullItemID=/lilly/starr/LL-SSM-ALC8239. Accessed 14 Mar. 2023. Lilly Library, Indiana University.
"Copyright, 1906, G. Schirmer, Jr., | For all countries."
Place in the larger work: The first song of five in a song cycle called "Christina's Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Birthday Song"; 2. "Seasons"; 3. "Who Has Seen the Wind?"; 4. "May"; 5. "Sing No Sad Songs for Me".
Tempo markings: ''Brightly [sung]"; quarter note = 120
Performance instructions: For "lyric soprano, contralto;" "coloratura soprano (also published for soprano with a few altered phrases) and piano." (Carman, 926)
Notes: Carman, Gaeddert, Resch and Myers (926) describe the voice and piano for the cycle as follows: "Voice: high tessitura; many different melodic motives; many phrases above the staff; much wordless coloratura; singer leaves stage slowly while singing 'oo' and 'ah' in last song; final phrases sung offstage; ends on D6". Piano: almost constant motion, usually in 8ths; many accidentals; broken-chord patterns; rolled chords; arpeggiation; fast tempos."
Fornuto, Donato D.; music (American, 1931-2022)
Other data reference(s): Carman, Judith. "Music Reviews: Fornuto, Donato D. (1931--). 'Christina's Songs.'" Journal of Singing - The Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Jacksonville, vol. 56, no. 4, Mar 2000, p. 69. ProQuest, www.proquest.com/openview/ffa96d6a50da567c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=971. Accessed 13 Mar. 2023. Carman, Judith E. et al. Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, 2013, no. 926, pp. 141-2. Google Books, books.google.ca/books?id=a2j062ZhTAcC&lpg=PA421&ots=hvj8lyhlzV&dq=filpat%20publishing&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q=Christina's%20Songs&f=false. Accessed 9 Apr. 2018.
Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Place in the larger work: The second song of five in a song cycle called "Christina's Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Birthday Song"; 2. "Seasons"; 3. "Who Has Seen the Wind?"; 4. "May"; 5. "Sing No Sad Songs for Me".
Tempo markings: "Flowing"; quarter note = 120
Place in the larger work: The fourth song of five in a song cycle called "Christina's Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Birthday Song"; 2. "Seasons"; 3. "Who Has Seen the Wind?"; 4. "May"; 5. "Sing No Sad Songs for Me".
Tempo markings: "Freely"; quarter note = 60 ca.
"Sing No Sad Songs for Me" [Donato D. Fornuto]
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in a song cycle called "Christina's Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Birthday Song"; 2. "Seasons"; 3. "Who Has Seen the Wind?"; 4. "May"; 5. "Sing No Sad Songs for Me".
Tempo markings: "Slowly and Freely"; quarter note = 63-69
"Who Has Seen the Wind?" [Donato D. Fornuto]
Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"
Place in the larger work: The third song of five in a song cycle called "Christina's Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Birthday Song"; 2. "Seasons"; 3. "Who Has Seen the Wind?"; 4. "May"; 5. "Sing No Sad Songs for Me".
Tempo markings: "Agitato"; quarter note = 132-138
"Prairie Boy, Prairie Boy" [Morris Surdin]
First line of lyrics: Oo-ee Oo-ee Prairie boy, prairie boy
Notes about the text: The lyrics contain lines 5 and 6 of the poem by Rossetti in the words by W. O. Mitchell.
Performance history: Performed by Brooke Mitchell, with Rachel Andrist, piano, at the The Royal Conservatory’s Mazzoleni Hall, Toronto. "Prairie Boy by Morris Surdin | Brooke Mitchell." YouTube, uploaded by Brooke Mitchell, 14 July 2019, https://youtu.be/-oK6L1lrjPY.
Surdin, Morris; music (Canadian, 1914-1979)
Mitchell, W. O. [William Ormond]; text (Canadian, 1914-1998)
Rossetti, Christina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
"© 1965 by Boosey & Co. Ltd. | All rights reserved"
First line of lyrics: Service and strength, God's Angels and Archangels
genre: song|choral music|hymn|sacred music
chorus: congregational singing|mixed chorus
Rossetti poem(s): "St. Michael and All Angels"
Performance instructions: "Verse 2, line 2 must be sung thus:--"
Notes: Published in Songs of Praise. Enlarged ed. by Dearmer, Percy, et al., University Press, 1931, in a section called "Michaelmas."
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4713
Cataloguer: Manoshi Kanta Sarkar, University of Ottawa
Musical score: Dearmer, Percy, et al. Songs of Praise. Enlarged ed., University Press, 1931, p. 288, no. 240. Huron College Library, Western University, London.
London: Oxford University Press (Humphrey Milford)
"(Copyright, 1931, by Oxford University Press.)"
First line of lyrics: When I am dead my dearest
Cornelissen, Arnold; music (American, born in Netherlands)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4193
Musical score: Seattle Public Library, Seattle
"Copyright 1934 by Elkan-Vogel Co.,Inc. | International Copyright Secured"
File(s): CRM-songwheniamdead-cornelissen.pdf
"Sing No Sad Songs" [Anthony Bernarducci]
Notes about the text: In the lyrics, the word "if" has been removed from line 12 in the poem.
Tempo markings: quarter note = "92-95 Flowing with Rubato"
Recordings: "Sing No Sad Songs." J.W. Pepper, www.jwpepper.com/Sing-No-Sad-Songs/10678455.item#/submit. Accessed 7 March 2023.
Dedication: "Dedicated to Catalina Foothills Concert Chorale"
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (English, 1830-1894)
Cataloguer: Monica Cote Macson, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Sing No Sad Songs." J.W. Pepper, www.jwpepper.com/Sing-No-Sad-Songs/10678455.item#/submit. Accessed 6 Nov. 2021.
"Copyright © 2011 by Anthony Bernarducci. All rights reserved."
5 pages; performance time approx. 3 minutes
First line of lyrics: Where are the songs I used to know
Rossetti poem(s): "The Key-Note"|"'What good shall my life do me?'" ("No hope in life; yet there is hope")|"Another Spring"
Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of fragments of three poems. In order, the lyrics include the three first lines of poem "The Key-Note", the last 2 stanzas (17-18) (ll. 49-54) of poem "'What good shall my life do me?'" ("No hope in life; yet there is hope"), where"that others" was added in line 53 of the poem: "Behold your lives [that others] may kindle too;" and the last 5 lines [ll. 20-24] of the poem "Another Spring", where the word "Spring" was replaced by "day."
Composition history: "Commissioned by the Hamilton Music School in 1991 with funding from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand) and the Composers Foundation (APRA)" The work "was intended for the entire school to perform: choir, orchestra and symphonic band members. The scoring has some degree of flexibility as I could not be sure in advance who I was writing for. A planned performance of the work at the Bay of Plenty Music School in early 2008, prompted a revision of the work (and the opportunity to put it onto computer). An additional stanza was also added to the second text." ("Rossetti Fragments")
Tempo markings: quarter note = "138 With a strong rhythmic pulse"
Performance instructions: "The piece divides into three sections following the divisions of the text, and begins with an introductory section for the orchestra. The music of the opening choral section returns in a slightly modified form as the final section." ("Rossetti Fragments")
Performance history: Premiered on 25 August 1991 by participants at the Hamilton Music School. The revised version was performed on 27 Apr 2008, Bay of Plenty (BOP) Music School Final Concert. ("Rossetti Fragments")
Hamilton, David; music (New Zealand, born 1955)
Other data reference(s): "Rossetti Fragments." Sounz: Centre for New Zealand Music, https://sounz.org.nz/works/18523?locale=en. Accessed 7 March 2023.
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
1991 [composition]; 2008 [revised version]
"Copyright © David Hamilton 2008." All rights reserved. The score appears in this archive by kind permission of composer David Hamilton.
25 pages; performance time 7 minutes and 15 seconds
"The First Spring Day" [Harold Chappell]
First line of lyrics: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one flat
Rossetti poem(s): "The First Spring Day"
Notes: "in A [flat]". Also available "in F".
Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson, University of Ottawa
Musical score: The British Library, London
"Copyright MCMXII by Reeder & Walsh. 'International copyright secured.' | This song may be sung in public without fee or licence, but public performance by gramophone or other mechanical reproductions are not permitted. | The Public performance of any parodied version of this song is strictly prohibited."
File(s): CRM-firstspringday-chappell.pdf
Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")
Oldroyd, George; music (British, 1887-1956)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4730
Other data reference(s): Record for "Soliloquy. Song, words by C. Ros[s]etti." The British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004561484. Accessed 1 March 2023.
Cataloguer: Megan McKague and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
First line of lyrics: The irresponsive silence of the land
Part of: "Five Victorian Songs" and "Four Victorian Songs"
instrumentation: flute|clarinet|viola|cello
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Place in the larger work: The first song of five in the song cycle called "5 Victorian Songs" which includes 1. "Aloof" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Cadmus and Harmonia" (Matthew Arnold); 3. "Spring and Fall: to a young child" (Gerald Manley Hopkins); 4. "Invictus" (William Ernest Henley); 5. "Sonnet from the Portuguese" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). The first song of four songs in the song cycle called "4 Victorian Songs" which includes 1. "Aloof" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Cadmus and Harmonia" (Matthew Arnold); 3. "Invictus" (William Ernest Henley); 4. "Sonnet from the Portuguese" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning).
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the first stanza only.
Composition history: Commissioned by "Capitol Chamber Artists, with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts". In the program notes, Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999, it states : "In 1991 she scored the collection as Four Victorian Songs for piano and voice, thinning the canonic textures and omitting one of the poems" ("Five Victorian Songs," Vivian Fine).
Tempo markings: "Five Victorian Songs": "Moderato"; quarter note = 60. "Four Victorian Songs": quarter note = 60
Performance instructions: In "Four Victorian Songs": "Somberly"
Performance history: Debut performance of "Five Victorian Songs" was held on March 4, 1988 at Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont, with Janet Stasio, soprano, Mary Lou Saetta, violin and viola, Irvin Gilman, flute, Charles Stancampiano, clarinet, Ann Alton, cello. ("Five Victorian Songs," Vivian Fine)
Recordings: Five Victorian Songs. Performance by The Capitol Chamber Artists: Janet Stasio, soprano, Mary Lou Saetta, violin and viola, Irvin Gilman, flute, Charles Stancampiano, clarinet, Ann Alton, cello. Vivian Fine Vivian Fine Estate, IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/191210.
Notes: Manuscripts. "[4 Victorian Songs] is a rescoring of Five Victorian Songs (1988) with one song omitted" ("4 Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian).").
Fine, Vivian; music (American, 1913-2000)
Other data reference(s): "Five Victorian Songs." Vivian Fine, www.vivianfine.org/main/compositions/five-victorian-songs.htm. Accessed 21 Oct. 2019. "5 Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian)." imslp.org/wiki/5_Victorian_Songs_(Fine%2C_Vivian). Accessed 11 Oct. 2019. "4 Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian)." IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/4_Victorian_Songs_(Fine%2C_Vivian). Accessed 11 Oct. 2019.
Cataloguer: Anna Lewis and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Musical score: Five Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian), IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/191208. Accessed 11 Oct. 2019.
Musical score: Four Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian), IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/191215. Accessed 11 Oct. 2019.
Sound recording: "Aloof." Five Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian), IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/191210, Accessed 28 Feb. 2023.
1988 [composition] [copyright]; 1991 November [composition]
"© 1988 Vivian Fine" (Five Victorian Songs)" 5 Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian), https://imslp.org/wiki/5_Victorian_Songs_(Fine,_Vivian)#IMSLP191210 and 4 Victorian Songs (Fine, Vivian), https://imslp.org/wiki/4_Victorian_Songs_(Fine,_Vivian)#IMSLP191215, by Vivian Fine is licensed under IMSLP: Performance Restricted Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 1.0, https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Performance_Restricted_Attribution_Non-commercial_No_Derivatives_1.0, based on the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license, https://imslp.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Attribution_Non-commercial_No_Derivatives_3.0, but with the added restriction of no performance allowed. Audio recording: Aloof, https://imslp.org/wiki/5_Victorian_Songs_(Fine,_Vivian)#IMSLP191210, by Vivian Fine, performed by the Capitol Chamber Artists, Janet Stasio, soprano, Mary Lou Saetta, violin and viola, Irvin Gilman, flute, Charles Stancampiano, clarinet, Ann Alton, cello, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0, https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution_Non-commercial_No_Derivatives_3.0.
8 pages (pp. 1-8); complete song cycle performance time 16 minutes and 45 seconds of "Five Victorian Songs". 4 pages (pp. 1-4); complete song cycle performance time 10 minutes of "4 Victorian Songs"
performance time 3 minutes and 10 seconds from the song cycle "Five Victorian Songs"
File(s): CRM-threadoflife-fine-1.pdf; CRM-threadoflife-fine-1.mp3; CRM-threadoflife-fine-2.pdf
"A Birthday" [Jane K (Evgeniya Kozhevnikova)]
First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
Tempo markings: dotted quarter note = 80
Performance history: "A Birthday" had its world premiere on September 27, 2019, 7 p.m., at the Bethany Reformed Church in Kalamazoo, in a Celebris Concert Program, called "“Exaltation & Resolution,” performed by the Celebris Ensemble under the direction of Joel Snyder, and then again on September 29, 2019 at 6 p.m. at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Allegan, MI. (Snyder)
Recordings: "A Birthday." J.W. Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/A-Birthday/11192555.item#/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2021.
Jane K (Evgeniya Kozhevnikova); music (American, a.k.a. Jane Scoring, born Evegeniya Kozhevnikova)
Other data reference(s): Snyder, Joel. “Celebris Concert Program Sept 27 & 29, 2019.” Solfa Sounds, posted 18 Sep. 2019, solfasounds.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/celebris-concert-program-sept-27-29-2019/.
Cataloguer: Lauren Lozier, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Birthday." J.W. Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/A-Birthday/11192555.item#/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2021.
2019 [composition][copyright][publication]
"Copyright © 2019. JK UNITED LLC. [...] All rights reserved. Duplication prohibited."
12 pages; performance time ca. 2 minutes and 45 seconds