Sacco, P. [Patrick] Peter; music (American, 1928-2000)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4383
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa
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Sacco, John Charles; music (American, 1905-1987)
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
title unknown [setting of "A Birthday"] [Paul A. Pisk]
Pisk, Paul A. [Paul Amadeus]; music (American, born in Austria, 1893-1990)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4228
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
Performance history: 1969, January 18, Composers' Forum concert, performance by Lee Dougherty, soprano, David Gilbert, flute, Anne Chamberlain, piano. ("Composers' Forum concert")
Recordings: "Echo." Piece for cello, piano, and electronic tape: What grandma knew. Look, friend, at me. Events. Echo. Performance by Ann Chamberland, piano, Lee Dougherty, soprano, Sylvia Alexander, flute, Composers Recordings Inc., 1978. "Echo." Signs and circuits : string quartet no. 2. Performance by Ann Chamberland, piano, Lee Dougherty, soprano, Sylvia Alexander, flute, recorded in 1978, New World/CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.), 1996, 2011.
Rovics, Howard; music (American, born 1936)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4382
Other data reference(s): Record for "Echo: for flute, voice and piano, 1964, revised 1967." University of North Texas Library, https://iii.library.unt.edu/record=b1811802~S12. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020. Record for "Composers' Forum concert, 1969 January 18." Columbia University Libraries, sound recording, https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8616275. Accessed 8 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
1964 [composition]; 1967 [revised composition]; 1978 [copyright]
10 pages; performance time 4 minutes and 53 seconds
title unknown [setting of "A Birthday"] [Darius Milhaud]
other version 1 - instrumentation: orchestra
Performance history: First performed at Salon d'Antin, Paris, 18 July 1916 (Gooch and Thatcher 4226).
Milhaud, Darius; music (French, 1892-1974)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4226
First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
Notes: The second song of three in the song collection called "Songs of Love and Youth" which includes 1. "Love! What wilt thou with this heart of mine?" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); 2. "A birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Hence away! Begone" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
Manson, Willie B.; music (English, born in New Zealand, 1886-1916)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4224
Other data reference(s): Record for "Songs of love and youth / the poems by Longfellow and Christina Rossetti ; the music by Willie B. Manson." Vassar College Library, http://vaslib.vassar.edu:80/record=b2085043~S1. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
musical score: Manson, Willie B. "A birthday." Songs of Love and Youth, Boosey & Hawkes, pp. 7-11. Royal Academy of Music Library, London
London: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
Notes about the text: "Thickest fruit" is substituted for "thickset fruit."
Tempo markings: "Molto allegro"; quarter note = 144
Performance instructions: Luckstone instructs the singer to sing "with youthful ecstasy."
Dedication: "To Mme. Amelita Galli-Curci"
Luckstone, Isidore; music (American, 1861-1941)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4221
Other data reference(s): Record for "A birthday / Isidore Luckstone ; words by C.G. Rossetti." University of Missouri-Kansas City Library, http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/record=b6522555~S3. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019. Record for "A birthday High voice." Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/0?searchdata1=6648759%7BCKEY%7D&searchfield1=GENERAL%5ESUBJECT%5EGENERAL%5E%5E&user_id=WEBSERVER. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
musical score: University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri
"Copyright 1920, by Carl Fischer, New York."
"My heart is like a singing bird" [Federico Longas]
Performance history: This piece was published while Longas was on tour as an accompanying pianist for the singer Tito Schipa ("Federico Longas"). On the score, it states that the music was "sung by Tito Schipa" (Record for "My heart is like a singing bird [music] : song / words by Christina Rossetti ; music by Frederico Longas").
Longas, Frederico; music (Spanish, a.k.a. Federico Longás, 1893-1968)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4220
Other data reference(s): "Federico Longas." Edward B. Marks Music Company, http://www.ebmarks.com/composers/federico-longas/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019. Record for "My heart is like a singing bird [music] : song / words by Christina Rossetti ; music by Frederico Longas." National Library of Australia, https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1712617. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Rhodes, Harold William; music (English, 1889-1956)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4381
Other data reference(s): Record for "Echo : four-part song for mixed voices (S.A.T.B.)." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/940315700. Accessed 7 Apr. 2020.
Notes: The third song of eight in the song collection called "Eight Christina Rossetti Poems" which includes 1. "Holy Innocents"; 2. "Somewhere or Other"; 3. "A Birthday"; 4. "Listening"; 5. Ballad"; 6. "Trust"; 7. Boy Johnny"; 8. "Calling Me."
Liddle, Samuel; music (English, 1867-1951)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4219
Place in the larger work: One of six songs in the song cycle called "The Speaking Silence" which includes "I Heard You" (Walt Whitman); "Spell" (Emily Brontë); "So Delicious" (Ben Jonson); "When the Lamp is Shattered" (Percy B. Shelley); "There Be None of Beauty's Daughters" (Lord Byron); "Echo" (Christina Georgina Rossetti).
Piket, Frederick; music (Austrian-American, 1903-1974)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4380
Other data reference(s): Bureau of Public School Service, Austin, Texas, "Girls' Chorus" Prescribed Music. Revised for School Years Beginning 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966. The University of Texas: Austin. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/53997/2013-X-1339-RascoeElder.txt?sequence=2&isAllowed=y. Accessed 7 Apr. 2020.
Place in the larger work: The seventh song of 35 in the song cycle called "Flores de Mi Primavera" which includes settings of the following poems in their original languages: 1. "The moon" (Percy Shelley); 2. "Annabel Lee" (Edgar Allan Poe); 3. "Chanson d'Automne" (Paul Verlaine); 4. "Serenade" (Paul Verlaine); 5. "Am Rhein, am heiligen Strome . . ." (Heinrich Heine); 6. "Sonnet, Quand vous serez bien vieille" (Pierre de Ronsard); 7. "A birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "El Amante Despechado" (Anonimo); 9. "There is a lady sweet and kind" (Anonymous); 10. "Das Muhlrad" (unknown); 11. "Love's secret" (William Blake); 12. "Du hast Diamanten und Perlen (Heimkehr nr. 62)" (Heinrich Heine); 13. "Tiefe Wasser" (unknown); 14. "Du bist wie eine Blume" (Heinrich Heine); 15. "To Electra" (Robert Herrick); 16. "Requiem" (Robert Louis Stevenson); 17. "The Listeners" (Walter de la Mare); 18. "Il pleure dans mon coeur" (Paul Verlaine); 19. "Ariel's song" (William Shakespeare); 20. "Song" (Laurence Housman); 21. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Shelley); 22. "A red, red rose" (Robert Burns); 23. "Helen of Kirconnell" (Anonymous); 24. "The call" (Anonymous); 25. "The green singer" (John Shaw Neilson); 26. "Song, She's somewhere" (Richard Le Gallienne); 27. "Love's coming" (John Shaw Neilson); 28. "The world's wanderers" (Percy Shelley); 29. "Wo?" (Heinrich Heine); 30. "Beauty bathing" (Anthony Munday); 31. "Stanzas for music" (Lord Byron); 32. "A child's grace" (Robert Herrick); 33. "Bist du wirklich mir so feindlich? (Heimkehr nr. 76)" (Heinrich Heine); 34. "Edward, Edward!" (Anonymous); 35. "Why?" (Bliss Carman).
Lander, Cyril Bertram; music (English, active in New Zealand, 1904-1989)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4218
Other data reference(s): Record for "Cyril Bertram Lander." The National Archives, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/94953fa1-65ac-44e3-95b7-9cc86d948af2. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019. Record for "Flores de Mi Primavera : Songs." Worldcat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/497916034. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019. Record for "Lander, Cyril Bertram : Flores de mi primavera [for voice and piano]." National Library of New Zealand, https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23173534. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
musical score: University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
genre: song|art song (lied)|chamber opera
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: five flats
other version 2 - instrumentation: saxophone|double bass|piano
Composition history: This is one of Laitman's earliest compositions, and she chose Rossetti's "Echo," saying it "remains one of my favourites." Laitman, also adds "I always envision it as the song I'd want my husband to sing to me after my death; assuming I die first." (Laitman). "I composed this song in 1995 for my friend and Yale classmate, baritone Robert Kennedy." ("Echo").
Tempo markings: quarter note = 80; "tempo should ebb and flow; don't be too straightforward" [attached score]; "Tempo should be flexible throughout, with a slight push for a crescendo and slight relaxation for a descrescendo" [score on MusiaNeo (Laitman "Echo")]
Performance instructions: For "soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone or bass with piano; baritone with chamber orchestra. [,...] 'Echo' and 'The Ballad Singer' can be sung as a set by baritone." The song also appears in a one-act chamber opera ("Come to Me in Dream"): "Song 15 of 'Come To Me In Dreams', orchestrated for baritone, saxophone, double bass and piano" ("Echo").
Performance history: "Premiered at Weill Recital Hall, March 13, 1996, with soprano Karen Bogan and pianist Brian Zeger." (Laitman "Echo"). In 2004 as part of a one-act chamber opera called "Come to Me in Dreams": the fifteenth of fifteen songs in this "50 minute opera created from my songs by Cleveland Opera’s David Bamberger. Premiered at The Ohio Theatre June 9-12. 2004, Cleveland, Ohio. Cast: Sanford Sylvan, Fenlon Lamb, Megan Tillmann and Sara Renea Rucker; instrumentalists Judith Ryder, Maximilian Dimoff and Paul Cohen." ("Come to Me in Dreams"). In a concert on 30 October 2013 at Jonsson Performance Hall by bass Jared Schwartz and pianist Mary Dibbern.
Recordings: "Echo." Mystery: The Songs of Lori Laitman. Albany Records, 2000. Amazon.com, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QWRRN0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=artsongscom-20&linkId=a54f37dcb610f000203febd32fea9cf0. Accessed 5 Apr. 2020.
Laitman, Lori; music (American, born 1955)
Other data reference(s): "Come to Me in Dreams." Lori Laitman Composer, http://artsongs.com/catalog/come-to-me-in-dreams.html. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. "Echo." Lori Laitman Composer, artsongs.com/catalog/echo.html. Accessed 2 Mar. 2018. Laitman, Lori. "Echo." MusicaNeo, https://www.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-350910_echo.html#350910. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. Carman, Judith E., et al. Art Song in the United States, 1759-2011. Fourth edition, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013, 1645. Laitman, Lori. “Re: musical settings of poems by Christina Rossetti.” Received by Mary Arseneau. 29 Mar. 2018 "Vocal Concert with Jared Schwartz and Mary Dibbern." School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas in Dallas, https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/detail.html?id=1220353421. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Jazmine Clement and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
1995 [publication] [copyright]; 2015 [revised composition]
"© 1995, Lori Laitman. Enchanted Knickers Music, BMI." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer Lori Laitman.
6 pages; performance time 3 minutes and 35 seconds
genre: song|choral music|part song|song cycle
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in a song cycle called "Five Partsongs" which includes 1. Dream Tryst (Francis Thompson); 2. Ye little birds (Thomas Heywood); 3. Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee (Robert Herrick); 4. Now is the Month of Maying (Anonymous); 5. Come to me (Christina Rossetti).
Holst, Gustav; music (English, 1874-1934)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4377
Other data reference(s): "Gustav Holst." Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), ChoralWiki, http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gustav_Holst. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020.
musical score: "Come to me (Gustav Holst)." Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), ChoralWiki, submitted 23 Aug. 2019, http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Come_to_me_(Gustav_Holst).
"© 2019 by CPDL. This edition can be fully distributed, duplicated, performed, and recorded. Edited by Jan Wilke"
"All the bells were ringing" [Ernest Bullock]
Rossetti poem(s): "'All the bells were ringing'"
Bullock, Ernest, Sir; music (English, 1890-1979)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (English, 1830-1894)
Other data reference(s): Full text of "Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1925 Musical Compositions For the Year 1925 New Series Vol 20 Part 3." https://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig203libr/catalogofcopyrig203libr_djvu.txt. Accessed 5 Apr 2020. Record for "All the Bells were ringing. From "Sing-Song". Unison Song for children, poem by C. Rossetti." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004245710. Accessed 5 Apr 2020.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Notes: Published in "Three Songs. i. Fairy lullaby. (W. Shakespeare.) ii. Mother moon. (A. J. Burr.) iii. Echo. (C. Rossetti.)." Composers' Music Corporation, New York, 1922.
Harris, Edward C.; music (American, born 1899)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4376
Other data reference(s): Record for "Three Songs.i. Fairy lullaby. (W. Shakespeare.)ii. Mother moon. (A. J. Burr.)iii. Echo. (C. Rossetti.)." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004394183. Accessed 5 Apr 2020.
"Come to Me, My Love" [Norman Dello Joio]
First line of lyrics: Come to me in the night
Tempo markings: "Andante expressivo"; quarter note = 60
Performance history: 2011, Madison Summer Choir, Ben Luedcke, conductor. "Come to Me, My Love - Dello Joio - Madison Summer Choir." YouTube, uploaded by Ben Luedcke, 22 Dec. 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obfu8MCTBG0. 2014, March 25, The Southwestern Illinois College Chamber Singers at the Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL; Andrew Jensen, conductor, Gail Long, pianist. "Come to Me, My Love by Norman Dello Joio." YouTube, uploaded by SWICMusicDepartment, 28 May 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPp4c0_Kzw. 2015, 10 October, Atlanta Master Chorale at the Season Premiere: Come, Stay, Go!, Dr. Eric Nelson, conductor, Jonathan Easter, piano accompanist. "Atlanta Master Chorale | Come to Me, My Love (Dello Joio)." Vimeo, uploaded by Atlanta Master Choral, 6 Apr 2016, https://vimeo.com/161767288.
Dello Joio, Norman; music (American, 1913-2008)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4375
musical score: "Come to Me, My Love." J.W. Pepper & Son Inc., https://www.jwpepper.com/Come-to-Me%2C-My-Love/1533025.item#/submit. Accessed 5 Apr 2020.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Come to Me, My Love." J.W. Pepper & Son Inc., https://www.jwpepper.com/Come-to-Me%2C-My-Love/1533025.item#/submit. Accessed 5 Apr 2020.
"Copyright © 1973 by Edward B. Marks Music Company. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission"
9 pages; performance time 3 minutes and 30 seconds
Place in the larger work: The first song of two in the song cycle called "Two Songs" which includes 1. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti), 2. "Ask Me No More" (Alfred Tennyson).
Performance history: "first sung by Alice Bates Rice in Boston on January 10, 1905" (Garofalo)
Converse, Frederick Shepherd; music (American, 1871-1940)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4374
Other data reference(s): "Book Shelf." The Musician (Boston, MA), vol. 9, no. 6, June 1094, p. 234. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl-handle-net.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t48q0hn5r?urlappend=%3Bseq=344. Garofalo, Robert Joseph. Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940): His Life and Music. Composers of North America, No. 14, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, N.Y & London, 1994, p. 25. Record for "Echo, op. 17, no. 1." University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999851264402121. Accessed 5 Apr 2020.
musical score: Evansdale Library, West Virginia University, Morgantown
Boston: Boston Music Co., G. Schirmer, Jr.
1903 [composition] [publication] [copyright]
Notes: Fourth chorus of five in a collection called "Choral Suite" that include: first chorus, "Song for a Dance"; second chorus, "A Night Song"; third chorus, "Streets", fourth chorus, "Echo"; fifth chorus, "To a Skylark".
Christiansen, Larry A.; music (American, born 1941)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4373
Other data reference(s): "Larry R. Christiansen." Vanguard Premieres Composers 2004-6, Vanguard Voices, www.vanguardvoices.org/composers2004-6.html. Accessed 4 Apr 2020. "Music: July-December 1964." Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, volume 18, part 5, no. 2, p. 1382.
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4372
Other data reference(s): Record for "Echo : a part-song for three voices and piano accompaniment." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004245663. Accessed 4 April 2020.
First line of lyrics: Come, come to me in the silence of the night / Kom, kom til mig, mem i nattens stilhed
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in a song cycle called “Engleske Sange: op.38” which includes 1. “Wynken, Blynken and Nod / Winke, Blinke og Dup” (Eugene Field), 2. “March / Marts” (William Wordsworth), 3. “Echo / Ekko” (Christina Rossetti).
Notes: The collection of songs called "Engelske Sange of Johan Backer-Lunde" is dedicated to Mrs. Borghild Langaard and includes opus 38 to 41.
Backer-Lunde, Johan; music (Norwegian, 1874-1958)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4371
Other data reference(s): Record for "Engelske sange : op38." Royal Academy of Music Library, http://lib.ram.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/57/5/0?searchdata1=89721{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER. Accessed 15 Apr. 2019.
musical score: Backer-Lunde, Johan. "Engelske Sange of Johan Backer-Lunde." Oluf By's Musikforlag, Kristiania, 1910. Royal Academy of Music Library, London
Oslo [formerly Kristiania]: Oluf By's Musikforlag
Boehr, Francis; music (active in United Kingdom between 1889-1913)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM144
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Other data reference(s): Record for "Come back in Dreams. Song, words by C. Rossetti." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004226382. Accessed 15 Apr. 2019.
Tempo markings: "Allegro con brio"; quarternote = 120
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel; music (English, 1875-1912)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4211
Other data reference(s): de Lerma, Dominique-René. 46. Works. "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)." AfriClassical.com, African Heritage in Classical Music, http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/song.html#46. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019.
musical score: National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
London: Metzler & Co.; Melbourne: Allan & Co.
File(s): CRM-birthday-coleridge-taylor.pdf
"In the Silence of the Night" [Marie W. Fobert]
Tempo markings: "Andante con espressione"
Dedication: "To my Mother Mrs. Emily J Keene."
Notes: In A flat. Ives states that the British Library "depository copy dated 10 Nov. 1893. Advertised among Ditson's 'Choice Sheet Music Publications for January,' Musical Record (January 1894:17)" (Ives DM117)
Fobert, Marie W.; music (American, active 1893)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM117
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, Pamela Cisneros and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: The British Library, London
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, London: Oliver Ditson Company; Chicago: Lyon & Healy
"Copyright MDCCCXCIII by Oliver Ditson Company. Copyright secured in England."
instrumentation: piano|FM synth|violin|viola|cello
Recordings: Hear "Echo--Dale Tracy, tenor" from the list of audio list on the composer's home page: http://www.jerrygerber.com/index.htm, also available on the following CD: In Praise of Poets. Performance by Dale Tracey, tenor. Jerry Gerber, 2004. CD Baby. https://cdbaby.com and Amazon Music, https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Poets-Jerry-Gerber/dp/B000CA3HXK. Accessed 2 April 2020.
Gerber, Jerry; music (American, born 1951)
musical score: "In Praise of Poets." Composer & Music Producer Jerry Gerber, http://www.jerrygerber.com/inpraiseofpoets.htm. Accessed 2 April 2020.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "In Praise of Poets." Composer & Music Producer Jerry Gerber, http://www.jerrygerber.com/inpraiseofpoets.htm. Accessed 2 April 2020.
"Copyright 2004 Jerry Gerber." The score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score is included on this website for research purposes by kind permission of composer and producer Jerry Gerber. To acquire the score and request performance rights, please consult the composer’s website, http://www.jerrygerber.com/index.htm.
9 pages; performance time 4 minutes and 5 seconds.