"Come, Blessed Sleep" [Brian Elias]
title: First line of lyrics: Come, blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come
title: Part of: "Three Songs"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: alto
subject: instrumentation: harp
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: other version 1 - solo: alto
subject: other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
subject: other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God'"
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of three in the song cycle called "Three Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Come, Blessed Sleep"; 2. "Dream of You"; 3. "Sleeping at Last."
description: Composition history: "These three poems by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) were written several years apart, yet they seem to express similar emotions and concerns. [...] I had wanted to write a work for voice and harp for some time, and found the dark and secret world of these poems ideally suited to this sonority."
description: Tempo markings: eighth note = ca.63
description: Performance history: "First performed by Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Helen Tunstall at the Purcell Room, London on 30th January 2004 as part of a portrait concert of Brian Elias given by Endymion."
creator: Elias, Brian; music (English, born in India 1948)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2331417. Accessed 6 October 2020.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Three Songs." Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2331417. Accessed 6 October 2020.
publisher: London: Chester Music
date: 2003 [composition [publication]
rights: "Copyright 2003 Chester Music Ltd."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 13 pages (pp. 1-12); complete song cycle performance time 15 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-thereremaineth-elias

"Remember" [Brad Burrill]
title: First line of lyrics: Remember me when I am gone away
subject: genre: choral music|song
subject: chorus: women’s SSAA chorus
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: four flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Remember"
description: Composition history: "I wrote Remember because I was moved by the potent sentiment of Christina Rossetti’s text. It portrayed a relationship ending prematurely, presumably from an impending death. Though the speaker was resigned to their fate, there was also a hopeful sense of wanting to reassure their partner that it would be okay for them to move on. That’s fertile ground for musical expression, so I constructed the song by spinning these twin messages—despair versus hopefulness—throughout the piece. INTRO: Remember me, when I am gone away I began the song with an unaccompanied round, intended as a quasi-echo, and calling to mind a static, quiet, dreamlike state. Then the texture coalesces into expanding homophony, like an image coming into focus, before proceeding into a complete statement of the first quatrain of the poem. FIRST QUATRAIN: Remember me, when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. Here I paired a descending Soprano 1 melody with an ascending Soprano 2 melody on the words “Remember me,” representing the twin themes of despair and hopefulness, respectively. Initially, the hopefulness shines through more, as the sopranos soar over bright, happy harmonies on “when I am gone away,” before gently descending again. Next we arrive at the phrase “gone far away into the silent land.” This was actually the first musical idea that came to me when I imagined how to set this poem. Here I used long, slow whole notes on a single pitch in the Alto 1 part to give a sense of time stopping, or death. The other 3 vocal parts respond to this with faltering restatements of grief, before arriving with a mysterious dissonance on the word land, signifying that things are not fully resolved, literally. The minor tonality and escalating dynamics of the next phrases continue the emotional narrative, progressing from melancholy sadness to utter despair. SECOND QUATRAIN Remember me, w…
description: Performance history: Performed by Cantala Choir for concert entitled "Loss, Reflection, and Hope (Reflections on 9/11) – 10/15/11" (Cantala Repertoire).
description: Recordings: "Remember." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Cantala Choir (Lawrence University), Phillip Swan, choir director.
creator: Burrill, Brad; music (American, born 1970)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Burrill, Brad. "Re: "Christina Rossetti in Music" inquiry." Received by Mary Arseneau. 21 Oct. 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Brad Burrill
source: sound recording: "Remember." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Cantala Choir (Lawrence University), Phillip Swan, choir director.
date: 2005 [copyright]
rights: "©2005 Brad Burrill, All Rights Reserved" This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer Brad Burrill.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 8 pages
format: Format 2: sound recording
format: running time 4 minutes and 21 seconds
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-remember-burrill
identifier: File(s): CRM-remember-burrill.pdf

"What Do the Stars Do" [arr. Edith Lovell Thomas, music unknown composer]
title: First line of lyrics: What do the stars do
subject: genre: hymn|song|sacred music
subject: chorus: congregational singing
subject: initial sharps/flats: two sharps
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: female arranger
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'What do the stars do'"
creator: Unknown; music (German Folk Song)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
creator: Thomas, Edith Lovell; arrangement (American, 1878-1970)
source: Other data reference(s): "A First Book in Hymns and Worship‎page 44." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/FBHW1922/page/44. Accessed 2 October 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: "What Do the Stars Do." A First Book in Hymns and Worship, edited by Edith Lovell Thomas, Abingdon Press, New York, 1922, p. 44. Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/FBHW1922/page/44. Accessed 2 October 2020.
publisher: New York: Abingdon Press
date: 1922 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 1 page
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-whatdothestars-unknown-thomas
identifier: File(s): CRM-whatdothestars-unknown-thomas.pdf

"The shepherds had an angel" [unknown composer]
title: First line of lyrics: The shepherds had an angel
subject: genre: carol|Christmas music|sacred music|song|hymn
subject: chorus: congregational singing
subject: instrumentation: organ
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren" ("The shepherds had an angel")
creator: Unknown; music (tune "TYNEMOUTH")
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "The shepherds had an angel." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/text/the_shepherds_had_an_angel. Accessed 2 October 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: "The shepherds had an angel." The Riverdale Hymn Book‎, edited by Ira Seymour Dodd and Lindsay Bartholomew Longacre, Fleming H. Revell Co., New York, 1912, p. 429. Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/text/the_shepherds_had_an_angel. Accessed 2 October 2020.
publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Co.
date: 1912 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-unknown-tynemouth
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-unknown-tynemouth.pdf

"The Shepherds Had an Angel" (G.D.R.)
title: First line of lyrics: The shepherds had an angel
subject: genre: carol|Christmas music|sacred music|song|hymn|children's music
subject: chorus: congregational singing|children's unison chorus
subject: initial sharps/flats: one sharp
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren" ("The shepherds had an angel")
description: Notes: #125 in The Hymnal for Boys and Girls. The tune is called "Felver."
creator: Richards, G. Darlington; music
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "125. The Shepherds Had an Angel." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/H4BG1935/125. Accessed 2 October 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
publisher: New York: D. Appleton-Century Company
date: 1935 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright 1935 by D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-richards

"Wind in the Trees" [Leslie H. Heward]
title: First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?
subject: genre: hymn|song|children's music
subject: chorus: congregational singing
subject: instrumentation: keyboard
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 6/8 9/8
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"
description: Composition history: "(By permission of Macmillan & Co.)"
description: Performance instructions: "(Irregular)."
description: Notes: This song was published in the "Winchester Hymn Supplement", 1928 edition by Warren & Son, Winchester. The second of two tunes to choose from. The attempt by the Winchester Diocesan Church Music Committee to offer a small collection of hymns and tunes [divided in 3 parts: (1) for adults; (2) for older children; (3) for young children ("New Music. Songs" p. 184)] in 1923 was such a large success that it justified a more substantial volume. The 1928 publication includes "123 hymns and 14 carols together with Merbecke's Communion Service, as edited by E.G.P. Wyatt and Royle Shore." (Harding, p. 152)
creator: Heward, Leslie Hays; music (British, 1897-1943)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4881
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
source: Other data reference(s): Harding, H. A. "Church and Organ Music. Royal College of Organists." The Musical Times, vol. 70, no. 1032, 1 Feb. 1929, pp. 142-144, 152-153. JSTOR. "New Music. Songs." The Musical Times, vol. 64, no. 961, 1 Mar. 1923, pp. 183-185. JSTOR.
source: Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: Musical score: Winchester Hymn Supplement, with Tunes. Warren & Son, Winchester, 1928, p. 168, no. 139.
publisher: Winchester: Warren and Son
date: 1928 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 1 page
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-whohasseen-heward
identifier: File(s): CRM-whohasseen-heward.jpg

untitled [setting of "'Who has seen the wind?'"] [arr. anonymous, music D. Corner]
title: First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?
subject: genre: hymn|song|children's music
subject: chorus: congregational singing
subject: initial sharps/flats: one sharp
subject: initial time signature: 6/8
subject: origin: Germany
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"
description: Composition history: "(By permission of Macmillan & Co.)"
description: Performance instructions: "(Irregular.)"
description: Notes: Text adapted to a 1631 work by D. Corner, a tune entitled "Spiritus" (Gooch 4870). This song was published in the "Winchester Hymn Supplement", 1928 edition by Warren & Son, Winchester. The first of two tunes to choose from. The attempt by the Winchester Diocesan Church Music Committee to offer a small collection of hymns and tunes [divided in 3 parts: (1) for adults; (2) for older children; (3) for young children ("New Music. Songs" p. 184)] in 1923 was such a large success that it justified a more substantial volume. The 1928 publication includes "123 hymns and 14 carols together with Merbecke's Communion Service, as edited by E.G.P. Wyatt and Royle Shore." (Harding, p. 152)
creator: Corner, David Gregor; music (German, 1585-1648)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
creator: Anonymous; arrangement
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4870
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Other data reference(s): Harding, H. A. "Church and Organ Music. Royal College of Organists." The Musical Times, vol. 70, no. 1032, 1 Feb. 1929, pp. 142-144, 152-153. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/917499. "New Music. Songs." The Musical Times, vol. 64, no. 961, 1 Mar. 1923, pp. 183-185. JSTOR.
source: Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: Musical score: Winchester Hymn Supplement, with Tunes. Warren & Son, Winchester, 1928, p. 168, no. 139.
publisher: Winchester: Warren and Son
date: 1928 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 1 page
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-whohasseen-anonymous-corner
identifier: File(s): CRM-whohasseen-anonymous-corner.jpg

"De Profundis" [Diana Rosenblum]
title: First line of lyrics: Oh why is heaven built so far
subject: genre: art song (lied)|song
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: clarinet
subject: origin: United States
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "De Profundis"
description: Performance history: "De Profundis by Diana Rosenblum." Performance by Estelí Gomez, soprano, Vimeo, uploaded 27 Mar. 2013, https://vimeo.com/62832300.
creator: Rosenblum, Diana; music (American)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
date: 2013? [composition]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: performance video
format: performance time 3 minutes and 40 seconds
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-deprofundis-rosenblum

"Winter Rain" [Diana Rosenblum]
title: First line of lyrics: Every valley drinks
subject: genre: art song (lied)|song
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: clarinet
subject: origin: United States
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Winter Rain"
description: Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the first four stanzas (ll. 16) with the first stanza (ll. 1-4) repeated at the end.
description: Performance history: "Winter Rain by Diana Rosenblum." Performance by Estelí Gomez, soprano, Vimeo, uploaded 27 Mar. 2013, https://vimeo.com/62832790.
description: Recordings: Rosenblum, Diana. "Winter Rain." Lori Laitman: The Secret Exit; Kalmen Opperman: Un seul; Diana Rosenblum: Winter Rain, performance by Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, soprano and Denise A. Gainey, clarinet, Naxos Classics, 2020. Sound Cloud, https://soundcloud.com/user-936314119/winter-rain. Accessed 25 Sep. 2020.
creator: Rosenblum, Diana; music (American)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "Vocal/Choral." Diana Rosenblum, composer, https://www.ovanovi.com/works. Accessed 25 Sep. 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
date: 2013 [composition]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: sound recording
format: performance time 3 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-winterrain-rosenblum

"When a mounting Skylark sings" [Arthur Somervell]
title: First line of lyrics: When a mounting skylark sings
title: Part of: "Wind Flowers"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: tenor
subject: quartet: SATB
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'When a mounting skylark sings'"
description: Place in the larger work: The seventh song of ten in the song cycle called "Wind Flowers," which includes 1. "Twist me a Crown of Wind Flowers" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "High over the Breakers" (Sidney Dobell); 3. "The Wind has such a rainy Sound" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Hope is like a Harebell" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Two Doves on the self-same Branch" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Music, when soft Voices die" (Percy Shelley); 7. "When a mounting Skylark sings" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "Going to Bed" (R.L. Stevenson); 9. "Windy Nights" (R.L. Stevenson); 10. "Finale."
description: Composition history: "By kind permission of Mssrs. Macmillan & Co."
description: Tempo markings: "Andante con espressione"
creator: Somervell, Arthur; music (English, 1863-1894)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4859
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
source: Cataloguer: Julia Farnsworth, Mary Arseneau, and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: Musical score: International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Flowers_(Somervell%2C_Arthur). Accessed 6 April 2018.
publisher: London: Boosey & Hawkes
date: 1904 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © Boosey & Co 1903."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 4 pages (pp. 34-37)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-whenamounting-somervell
identifier: File(s): CRM-whenamounting-somervell.pdf

"Two Doves on the self-same Branch" [Arthur Somervell]
title: First line of lyrics: Two doves upon the self-same branch
title: Part of: "Wind Flowers"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: duet: soprano and alto
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")
description: Place in the larger work: The fifth song of ten in the song cycle called "Wind Flowers," which includes 1. "Twist me a Crown of Wind Flowers" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "High over the Breakers" (Sidney Dobell); 3. "The Wind has such a rainy Sound" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Hope is like a Harebell" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Two Doves on the self-same Branch" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Music, when soft Voices die" (Percy Shelley); 7. "When a mounting Skylark sings" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "Going to Bed" (R.L. Stevenson); 9. "Windy Nights" (R.L. Stevenson); 10. "Finale."
description: Composition history: "By kind permission of Mssrs. Macmillan & Co."
description: Tempo markings: "Andante"
creator: Somervell, Arthur; music (English, 1863-1894)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
source: Cataloguer: Julia Farnsworth, Mary Arseneau, and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: Somervell, Arthur. "Wind Flowers." International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Flowers_(Somervell%2C_Arthur). Accessed 6 April 2018.
publisher: London: Boosey & Hawkes
date: 1904 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © Boosey & Co 1903."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 3 pages (pp. 25-27)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-songtwodoves-somervell
identifier: File(s): CRM-songtwodoves-somervell.pdf

"Hope is like a Harebell" [Arthur Somervell]
title: First line of lyrics: Hope is like a harebell
title: Part of: "Wind Flowers"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: quartet: SATB
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: two sharps
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth'"
description: Place in the larger work: The fourth song of ten in the song cycle called "Wind Flowers," which includes 1. "Twist me a Crown of Wind Flowers" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "High over the Breakers" (Sidney Dobell); 3. "The Wind has such a rainy Sound" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Hope is like a Harebell" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Two Doves on the self-same Branch" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Music, when soft Voices die" (Percy Shelley); 7. "When a mounting Skylark sings" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "Going to Bed" (R.L. Stevenson); 9. "Windy Nights" (R.L. Stevenson); 10. "Finale."
description: Composition history: "By kind permission of Mssrs. Macmillan & Co."
description: Tempo markings: "Vivace"
creator: Somervell, Arthur; music (English, 1863-1894)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
source: Cataloguer: Julia Farnsworth, Mary Arseneau, and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: Somervell, Arthur. "Wind Flowers." International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Flowers_(Somervell%2C_Arthur). Accessed 6 April 2018.
publisher: London: Boosey & Hawkes
date: 1904 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © Boosey & Co 1903."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 5 pages (pp. 20-24)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-hopeislikeaharebell-somervell
identifier: File(s): CRM-hopeislikeaharebell-somervell.pdf

"The Wind has such a Rainy Sound" [Arthur Somervell]
title: First line of lyrics: The wind has such a rainy sound
title: Part of: "Wind Flowers"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: contralto
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'The wind has such a rainy sound'"
description: Place in the larger work: The third song of ten in the song cycle called "Wind Flowers," which includes 1. "Twist me a Crown of Wind Flowers" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "High over the Breakers" (Sidney Dobell); 3. "The Wind has such a rainy Sound" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Hope is like a Harebell" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Two Doves on the self-same Branch" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Music, when soft Voices die" (Percy Shelley); 7. "When a mounting Skylark sings" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "Going to Bed" (R.L. Stevenson); 9. "Windy Nights" (R.L. Stevenson); 10. "Finale."
description: Composition history: "By kind permission of Mssrs. Macmillan & Co."
description: Tempo markings: "Vivace"
creator: Somervell, Arthur; music (English, 1863-1894)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
source: Cataloguer: Julia Farnsworth, Mary Arseneau, and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: Somervell, Arthur. "Wind Flowers." International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Flowers_(Somervell%2C_Arthur). Accessed 6 April 2018.
publisher: London: Boosey & Hawkes
date: 1904 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © Boosey & Co 1903."
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format: Format 1: musical score
format: 3 pages (pp. 13-15)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-songtwodoves-somervell
identifier: File(s): CRM-songtwodoves-somervell.pdf

"Twist me a Crown of Wind Flowers" [Arthur Somervell]
title: First line of lyrics: Twist me a crown of wind flowers
title: Part of: "Wind Flowers"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: quartet: SATB
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: one sharp
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'Twist me a crown of wind-flowers'"
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of ten in the song cycle called "Wind Flowers," which includes 1. "Twist me a Crown of Wind Flowers" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "High over the Breakers" (Sidney Dobell); 3. "The Wind has such a rainy Sound" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Hope is like a Harebell" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Two Doves on the self-same Branch" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Music, when soft Voices die" (Percy Shelley); 7. "When a mounting Skylark sings" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "Going to Bed" (R.L. Stevenson); 9. "Windy Nights" (R.L. Stevenson); 10. "Finale."
description: Composition history: "By kind permission of Mssrs. Macmillan & Co."
description: Tempo markings: "Andante Grazioso"
creator: Somervell, Arthur; music (English, 1863-1894)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
source: Cataloguer: Julia Farnsworth, Mary Arseneau, and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: Somervell, Arthur. "Wind Flowers." International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Flowers_(Somervell%2C_Arthur). Accessed 6 April 2018.
publisher: London: Boosey & Hawkes
date: 1904 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © Boosey & Co 1903."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 7 pages (pp. 1-7)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-twistmeacrown-somervell
identifier: File(s): CRM-twistmeacrown-somervell.pdf

"A Lamb is Innocent and Mild" [Lee Eitzen]
title: First line of lyrics: A lamb is innocent and mild
subject: genre: carol|choral music|Christmas music|sacred music|song
subject: chorus: SATB chorus
subject: instrumentation: flute|organ|chimes
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Christmas Day"
description: Tempo markings: "Moderately"; quarter note = 70
description: Dedication: "To Wayne Dunlap"
creator: Eitzen, Lee; music (American, 1920-1981)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
source: Cataloguer: Melissa Poon and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Lamb_Is_Innocent_and_Mild_(Eitzen%2C_Lee). Accessed 1 Dec. 2018.
publisher: New York: Lois Wingerson
date: 1948 [composition]; 2012 [copyright]
rights: "Copyright 1948, 2012 LOIS WINGERSON. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. prepared by bottomless cup] music, New York, NY. www.bottomlesscupmusic.com"
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format: Format 1: musical score
format: 14 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmasday-eitzen
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmasday-eitzen.pdf

"Christmas Eve" [Tansy Davies]
title: First line of lyrics: Christmas hath a darkness
subject: genre: carol|choral music|Christmas music|sacred music|song|song cycle
subject: chorus: SATB chorus
subject: instrumentation: a cappella
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Christmas Eve"
description: Composition history: "'Christmas Eve' was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge, for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2011."
description: Tempo markings: "mysteriously, freely throughout"; quarter note = 54
description: Performance history: "It was first performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, on Christmas Eve 2011."
creator: Davies, Tansy; music (English, born 1973)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Davies, Tansy. "Christmas Eve." Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2692424. Accessed 24 September 2020.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Christmas Eve." Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2692424. Accessed 24 September 2020.
publisher: London: Faber Music
date: 2011 [publication]
rights: "Copyright 2011 by Faber Music Ltd."
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format: Format 1: musical score
format: 12 pages; performance time 6 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmaseve-davies

"Christmas Hath a Darkness" [Peter Bloesch]
title: First line of lyrics: Christmas hath a darkness
subject: genre: carol|choral music|Christmas music|sacred music|song|song cycle
subject: chorus: SATB chorus
subject: instrumentation: a cappella
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Christmas Eve"
description: Composition history: The head note on the score says that "In this mystical poem, Christina Rossetti surprises us with her unusual juxtapositions: 'Christmas hath a darkness brighter than the blazing noon' and 'Christmas hath a chillness warmer than the heat of June.' On first reading, these thoughts can be confusing. How can something dark be brighter than the noontime sun? And how can something cold be warmer than the summer heat? But I believe that Rossetti is using these striking contrasts to shock us into realizing that the lowly birth of Christ is more magnificent than anything else in creation, with the 'darkness' of his birth transcending even the brightest sunlight" (Bloesch). In email correspondence, the composer noted the settings origin in a request that he "create an original setting of 'Christmas Hath a Darkness' for her annual handmade Christmas card, which she's been creating for over 50 years! (She always features something interesting and original on her cards, oftentimes my own music.) This was one of the few times when someone asked me to set a particular poem to music. Usually, I choose my own poems." On a more general note, Bloesch commented, "As a composer of over 50 choral works, I was very moved by Rossetti's poetry, and found her texts to be enchanting to set to music. Her writing is direct but deceptively subtle and rich, and each reading bears more depths of meaning and inspiration. I tend to be most inspired by poetry that deals with nature and love, and her texts certainly blend these elements often enough."
description: Tempo markings: quarter note = ca. 76
description: Performance instructions: The score notes that the setting can be performed three different ways: 1. SATB chorus a capella, 2. SATB chorus with piano accompaniment, or 3. Soprano or tenor soloist or unison voices singing the soprano part, with piano accompaniment.
description: Performance history: This piece was premiered in December 2015 by Dr. Abby Musgrove at Illinois College.
description: Recordings: Bloesch, Peter. "Christmas Hath a Darkness ~ by Peter Bloesch (original composition for chorus & piano)." YouTube, 12 Apr. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYH2R5dW4r8. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019.
creator: Bloesch, Peter; music (American)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Bloesch, Peter. "“Christmas Hath a Darkness” ~ Version with piano accompaniment." peterbloesch.com, https://peterbloesch.com/music/choral/hol-keyboard/christmas-hath-satb-piano/. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019. Bloesch, Peter. "Re: Christina Rossetti in Music research project." Received by Mary Arseneau, 29 Jan. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Peter Bloesch
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: Bloesch, Peter. "“Christmas Hath a Darkness” ~ Version with piano accompaniment." peterbloesch.com. https://peterbloesch.com/music/choral/hol-keyboard/christmas-hath-satb-piano/. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019.
date: 2015 pre [composition]
rights: "Copyright owned by Peter Bloesch, with all rights reserved."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 7 pages
format: Format 2: performance video
format: running time 1 minute and 56 seconds
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmaseve-bloesch

"The Shepherds had an Angel" [David Hamilton]
title: First line of lyrics: The shepherds had an angel
title: Part of: "Four Carols"
subject: genre: sacred music|song cycle|carol|Christmas music|choral music|song
subject: chorus: SATB chorus
subject: instrumentation: a cappella
subject: initial sharps/flats: two flats
subject: initial time signature: 7/8 8/8
subject: origin: New Zealand
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren" ("The shepherds had an angel")
description: Place in the larger work: The second song of four in the song cycle called "Four Carols," which includes 1. "Love Came Down at Christmas" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "The Shepherds Had An Angel" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "The Childhood of Christ" (Eustace Condor); 4. "Epiphany Carol" (James Lowell).
description: Composition history: "While overseas in 1989 I came upon the book by Erik Routley A Panorama of Christian Hymnody - a sourcebook of hymns and other sacred texts. These four carols draw their texts from that book: the first two by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), the third by Eustace Condor (1820-1892), and the fourth by James Lowell (1819-1891). The fact that the poets are contemporaries is quite coincidental - these are texts which appealed and which appear to form a satisfactory cycle (although individual pieces may be performed separately). Love Came Down at Christmas is a popular and widely set Christmas text, and originally appeared in Time Flies: A Reading Diary, while The Shepherds had an Angel comes from Rossetti's Poetical Works. Both texts were originally intended as hymns for children. The Childhood of Christ was also a children's hymn and is drawn from the Congregational Church Hymnal of 1867, whereas the Epiphany Carol appeared in the 1865 publication Songs of the Sanctuary. Over a number of years I have written short Christmas pieces for groups directed by John Rosser - the Summer Singers, Quintessence, the Star Quartet and his fine chamber choir Viva Voce. These four pieces are dedicated to John and Kathryn Rosser as an appreciation for their interest in my music and willingness to perform (and record) it" (Hamilton).
description: Tempo markings: "rhythmically"; quarter note = c. 126
description: Dedication: "For John and Kathryn Rosser"
creator: Hamilton, David; music (New Zealand, born 1955)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Hamilton, David. "Four Carols." Sounz, https://www.sounz.org.nz/works/11734?locale=en#loan-information. Accessed 25 August 2020. Record for "Love came down at Christmas." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155720234. Accessed 11 April 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
publisher: Helsinki: Sulasol
date: 1991 [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © 1991 David Hamilton." The score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer David Hamilton.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: performance time 8 minutes (song cycle)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-hamilton
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-hamilton.pdf

"The shepherds had an Angel" [Charles Herbert Kitson]
title: First line of lyrics: The shepherds had an Angel
subject: genre: hymn|carol|Christmas music|sacred music|song
subject: chorus: congregational singing
subject: instrumentation: organ
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 6/8
subject: origin: Ireland
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren" ("The shepherds had an angel")
description: Notes about the text: The hymn text is accompanied by two scripture verses: "He shall gather the lambs with his arm" (Isaiah xl. 11); "Glory be unto the Lamb" (Revelations v. 13).
description: Tempo markings: "Unison."
description: Notes: Charles Herbert Kitson's tune "Sharow" was composed in 1915.
creator: Kitson, Charles Herbert; music (English, 1874-1944)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Record for "Church hymnal, with accompanying tunes." University of Toronto Libraries, http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1425221. Accessed 24 June 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Kitson, Charles Herbert. "Hymn 636." Church Hymnal, Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919, p. 836. Toronto Knox College Library, Toronto.
publisher: Dublin: Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge
date: 1915 [composition]; 1919 [publication]
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format: Format 1: musical score
format: 1 page (p. 836)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-kitson
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-kitson.pdf

"A Christmas Carol" [Joel Phillips]
title: First line of lyrics: Before the paling of the stars
subject: genre: carol|choral music|Christmas music|song|sacred music
subject: chorus: SATB chorus
subject: instrumentation: organ|timpani|brass ensemble
subject: initial sharps/flats: two flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("Before the paling of the stars")
description: Tempo markings: "Espressivo"; quarter note = 66-72
description: Dedication: "for James Jordan and The Westminster Chapel Choir"
description: Notes: The organ part and the parts for brass are available separately.
creator: Phillips, Joel; music (American, born 1958)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Record for "A Christmas carol." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77530300. Accessed 5 April 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Kathryn Sullivan Bowld Music Library, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth
publisher: New York: Shawnee Press; New York: Mark Foster Music
date: 2005 [copyright] [publication]
rights: "Copyright 2005, Fostco Music Press, A Division of Shawnee Press, Inc."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 9 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolbefore-phillips

"Christmas hath a darkness" [Derek Healey]
title: First line of lyrics: Christmas hath a darkness
title: Part of: "Two Christina Rossetti Carols"
subject: genre: carol|choral music|Christmas music|sacred music|song|song cycle
subject: chorus: SATB voices with divisi
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: two sharps
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Christmas Eve"
description: Place in the larger work: The second song of two in the song cycle called "Two Christina Rossetti Carols," which includes 1. "Before the paling of the stars"; 2. "Christmas hath a darkness."
description: Tempo markings: "Triumphantly"; quarter note = 56
description: Performance instructions: "Before the paling of the stars is gentle and penitential, similar to plainsong, whereas Christmas hath a darkness is by contrast both strong and joyful. In both carols, the melody often moves to an inner voice and the words 'in relief' appear. The singers should make this voice louder than the surrounding parts. Performers should not exaggerate the crescendi and diminuendi in the first carol except those at the work's close. In Christmas hath a darkness, singers should perform the verse which begins 'Earth strike up your music' with conviction, while the piano part (particularly the right hand) should be strong and evocative of clanging bells. The gradual relaxation of tension in the final two pages should be carefully controlled. Both pieces may be performed unaccompanied, the piano parts being ad lib. However, in the second carol, the fast scales are important. All ascending scales should be brilliant and descending, harp-like. I composed these two carols with college choruses in mind, but they are also suitable for liturgical use."
description: Dedication: "To Donald Kendrick"
creator: Healey, Derek; music (English, lived and worked in Canada & US, born 1936)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Derek Healey
publisher: Boston: Ione Press
date: 2009 [copyright] [publication]
rights: This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of composer Derek Healey.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 7 pages; performance time 2 minutes and 10 seconds
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmaseve-healey
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmaseve-healey.pdf

"Before the paling of the stars" [Derek Healey]
title: First line of lyrics: Before the paling of the stars
title: Part of: "Two Christina Rossetti Carols"
subject: genre: carol|choral music|Christmas music|sacred music|song|song cycle
subject: chorus: SATB voices with divisi
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("Before the paling of the stars")
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of two in the song cycle called "Two Christina Rossetti Carols," which includes 1. "Before the paling of the stars"; 2. "Christmas hath a darkness."
description: Composition history: "The original ideas for these two carols first came to me during Christmas of 2005 while visiting Oxford, Mississippi. However, they were not completed until the early Spring of 2009 in Brooklyn, New York. Like many other composers, I am often drawn to Christina Rossetti's fresh and imaginative religious and secular poetry."
description: Tempo markings: "Gently flowing"; quarter note = 58
description: Performance instructions: "Before the paling of the stars is gentle and penitential, similar to plainsong, whereas Christmas hath a darkness is by contrast both strong and joyful. In both carols, the melody often moves to an inner voice and the words 'in relief' appear. The singers should make this voice louder than the surrounding parts. Performers should not exaggerate the crescendi and diminuendi in the first carol except those at the work's close. In Christmas hath a darkness, singers should perform the verse which begins 'Earth strike up your music' with conviction, while the piano part (particularly the right hand) should be strong and evocative of clanging bells. The gradual relaxation of tension in the final two pages should be carefully controlled. Both pieces may be performed unaccompanied, the piano parts being ad lib. However, in the second carol, the fast scales are important. All ascending scales should be brilliant and descending, harp-like. I composed these two carols with college choruses in mind, but they are also suitable for liturgical use."
creator: Healey, Derek; music (English, lived and worked in Canada & US, born 1936)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Derek Healey
publisher: Boston: Ione Press
date: 2009 [copyright] [publication]
rights: This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of composer Derek Healey.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 5 pages; performance time 2 minutes and 30 seconds
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolbefore-healey
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmascarolbefore-healey.pdf

"Before the Paling of the Stars" [James Lavino]
title: First line of lyrics: Before the paling of the stars
subject: genre: carol|song|sacred music|choral music|Christmas music
subject: chorus: SATB chorus
subject: instrumentation: a cappella|piano (for rehearsal only)
subject: initial sharps/flats: two flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("Before the paling of the stars")
description: Composition history: "Commissioned by Dean Close School for Christmas 2009."
description: Tempo markings: "Lento misteriono, sempre rubato"; quarter note = 44
description: Performance history: "First performed by Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, conducted by Benjamin Nicholas, on 13 December 2009."
description: Recordings: "Before the Paling of the Stars." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by The Elysian Singers of London and Sam Laughton. Meridian Records, 2011.
creator: Lavino, James; music (American, born 1973)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Lavino, James. James Lavino Online, https://www.jameslavino.com/choral-2000-2010. Accessed 23 September 2020. Lavino, James. "Re: Question/Comment from jameslavino.com." Received by Alicia Duffley. 27 Feb. 2018.
source: Cataloguer: Alicia Duffley and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: James Lavino
publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
date: 2009 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "© James Lavino 2009." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer James Lavino.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 5 pages; performance time 2 minutes and 45 seconds
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolbefore-lavino
identifier: File(s): CRM-christmascarolbefore-lavino.pdf

"A Carol of Animals" [Jean Eichelberger Ivey]
title: First line of lyrics: O magnum mysterium
subject: genre: carol|Christmas music|sacred music
subject: solo: medium voice
subject: instrumentation: oboe|piano|organ
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 5/8
subject: origin: United States
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("Before the paling of the stars")
description: Work contains texts by multiple authors
description: Notes about the text: The carol connects Rossetti's "Before the Paling of the Stars" with a text from the Latin liturgy, "Responsory for the Nativity, Liber Usualis."
description: Tempo markings: "Lilting, like an ancient folk song"; eighth note = c. 126
description: Performance instructions: For piano or organ: "For church use, the piano part may, with slight adaptation, be played on the organ if desired."
creator: Ivey, Jean Eichelberger; music (American, 1923-2010)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Record for "A carol of animals." University of Toronto Libraries, http://go.utlib.ca/cat/4502731. Accessed 24 May 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Toronto Music Library, Toronto
date: 1976 [composition]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 7 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-christmascarolbefore-ivey

"What does the bee do?" [Fanny Snow Knowlton]
title: First line of lyrics: Who does the bee do?
subject: genre: song|children's music
subject: solo: voice
subject: chorus: children's unison chorus
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: four flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "'What does the bee do?'"
description: Composition history: Special permission by "Macmillan & Co., Limited for the use of the poem.
description: Performance instructions: "With expression"
description: Notes: One of three settings of poems by Christina Rossetti that appear in the publication "Songs of Childhood" by Thaddeus P. Giddings, Director of School Music in Minneapolis MN, Will Earhart, Director of School Music in Pittsburgh PA, Ralph L. Baldwin, Director of School Music in Hartford CT and Edbridge W. Newton, Managing Editor. It was ublished by Ginn and Company in 1923 as part of the "Music Education Series." "Piano accompaniments for these songs are issues in another volume." (p. 5)
creator: Knowlton, Fanny Snow; music (American, 1859-1926)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4853
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
source: Other data reference(s): Giddings, Thaddeus P. et al., Songs of Childhood, Ginn and Company, 1923. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006577578, Traditional Music Library, http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songs-childhood/. Accessed 21 Sep. 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Knowlton, Fanny Snow. "What does the bee do?." Songs of Childhood, edited by Thaddeus P. Giddings et al., Ginn and Company, 1923, p. 75. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006577578. Accessed 21 Sep 2020.
publisher: Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, San Francisco: Ginn and Company
date: 1923 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright, 1923, by Ginn and Company. All Rights Reserved."
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format: Format 1: musical score
format: 1 page
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-whatdoesthebee-knowlton
identifier: File(s): CRM-whatdoesthebee-knowlton.pdf