"Sooner or later: yet at last" [Rev. James Moffatt]
First line of lyrics: Sooner or later: yet at last
Rossetti poem(s): "'Sooner or later: yet at last'"
Moffatt, James, Rev.; music (Scottish, 1870-1944)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Other data reference(s): "439. Sooner or later: yet at last." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/HPAG1933/439. Accessed 25 May 2020.
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
"From "The Church Hymnary," Revised. Used by permission. Copyright, 1927, by the Oxford University Press" ("439. Sooner or later: yet at last.")
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First line of lyrics: Service and strength, God's angels and archangels
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Rossetti poem(s): "St. Michael and All Angels"
Composition history: "MICHAELMAS, commissioned by Bill and Nancy Raabe and family, Birmingham AL. Tune named for the date on the liturgical calendar for which the text was written."
Scott, K. Lee; music (American, born 1950)
Reference: Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/
Other data reference(s): "40. Service and Strength." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/RIGS2000/40. Accessed 25 May 2020.
"O ye who taste that love is sweet" [unknown composer]
Rossetti poem(s): "'What good shall my life do me?'" ("No hope in life; yet there is hope")
Notes: #414 in the hymnal called "Hymns of the spirit for use in the free churches of America." Tune is called "BOHEMIA."
Unknown; music (traditional German melody)
Other data reference(s): "414. O ye who taste that love is sweet." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/HSUF1937/414. Accessed 25 May 2020.
Record: CRM-whatgoodnohope-unknown-germantraditional
"O ye who taste that love is sweet" [E.F. Rimbault]
Rimbault, Edward F. [Francis]; music (English 1816-1876)
Other data reference(s): "O ye who taste that love is sweet." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/Meth1933/893. Accessed 25 May 2020.
title unknown [setting of "'None other Lamb, none other Name'"] [Dr. Herbert Sanders]
Rossetti poem(s): "'None other Lamb, none other Name'"
Notes: #115 in the Methodist Hymn and Tune Book. The tune is called "ROSSETTI."
Sanders, Herbert, Dr.; music (Canadian, born in England, 1878-1938)
Other data reference(s): "ROSSETTI." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/tune/rossetti_sanders. Accessed 25 May 2020.
musical score: "115 (First Tune)." Methodist Hymn and Tune Book, The Methodist Book and Publishing House, 1917, p. 128. Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/MHTB1917/page/128. Accessed 25 May 2020.
Toronto: The Methodist Book and Publishing House
title unknown [setting of "'None other Lamb, none other Name'"] [F.L. Wiseman]
First line of lyrics: None other Lamb, none other Name
Composition history: "Words used by permission of The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."
Notes: #115 in the Methodist Hymn and Tune Book. The tune is called "ALL HALLOWS."
Wiseman, F.L. [Frederick Luke]; music (1858-1944)
Other data reference(s): "ALL HALLOWS (Wiseman)." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/tune/all_hallows_wiseman. Accessed 25 May 2020.
musical score: "115 (Second Tune)." Methodist Hymn and Tune Book, The Methodist Book and Publishing House, 1917, p. 129. Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/MHTB1917/page/129. Accessed 25 May 2020.
"Copyright, 1904, by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference."
"The shepherds had an angel" [F.L. Wiseman]
First line of lyrics: The shepherds had an angel
Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren" ("The shepherds had an angel")
Other data reference(s): "CHRISTINA." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/tune/christina_wiseman. Accessed 24 May 2020.
musical score: "CHRISTINA." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/tune/christina_wiseman. Accessed 24 May 2020.
Record: CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-wiseman
File(s): CRM-christmascarolformygodchildren-wiseman.pdf
"Love is the key of life and death" [F.L. Wiseman]
Rossetti poem(s): "A Song for the Least of all Saints"
Notes: The tune is called "LOVEST THOU ME"
Other data reference(s): "The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes ‎#435." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/Meth1933/435. Accessed 24 May 2020.
musical score: "Love is the key of life and death." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/tune/lovest_thou_me_wiseman. Accessed 25 May 2020.
File(s): CRM-songfortheleast-wiseman.pdf
First line of lyrics: Remember me when I am gone away
Dedication: "to Florence and John Keating"
Pasatieri, Thomas; music (American, born 1945)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Duets for two voices and piano." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/665195652. Accessed 17 Apr. 2020. "Duets." Theodore Presser Company, https://www.presser.com/411-41123-duets.html. Accessed 17 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: University of Texas at Austin Library, Austin
King of Prussia: Theodore Presser Company
Composition history: "I was at a local concert and hadn't seen the program beforehand so I was pleasantly surprised to see the soloist in Berlioz Les nuits d'ete was a friend. I knew she was a singer but didn't know she did solo work and I heard later this was the first time she had sung with an orchestra. I was sitting right at the front and was only a few feet from her. When she spotted me she gave me her water bottle to look after which she swigged from between movements. I'd not heard this piece before and was very impressed both with the performance and the composition. (It is only a small amateur orchestra but they played very well). When I got home I listened to the Berlioz again with the score and thought it sounded very advanced for its time and for being an early opus number. I thought I could see presaged in it elements that would be well developed by the great late romantic composers of big orchestral songs. About a year previously I'd sketched the opening 90 seconds of a setting of Christina Rossetti's "Remember" for soprano and string orchestra. At the time this was for a competition but I was too busy then to spend enough time on it so I'd put it to one side, much as I'd liked the opening and had the feeling I should do something with it eventually. After hearing the Berlioz I was inspired to pick this sketch up again, to orchestrate it for the same small orchestra I'd just heard and to finish it off, which took just a week to do (in a few evenings) as I felt quite driven to write this and had a compelling feeling for how it should go. I'm familiar with the orchestral songs of Finzi, R. Strauss, Mahler and Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and I feel there are touches of some of these influences in this piece. Although the poem is about loss through death it is also quite life affirming, so I wanted to reflect that. It starts quite plaintively where the poem asks the surviving loved one to remember the other when dead but then later asks not to grieve or to remember if that causes suffering. You'll notice the score includes words in italics near the end for some instrumental parts. This is not for then to sing but to remind them that the motifs they are playing at the end are from the "do not grieve" section (the "do not grieve"section was from a little sketch I made separately months ago and thought I must use this in something). I felt including the do not grieve music within the finishing words "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad" worked within the sense of the poem to round the music off (and made for some nice gentle suspensions). Earlier I also I couldn't resist using the half octave changing direction on the words "half turn". Most of my music is pretty light-hearted and I wanted to try something serious for a change, so this is it" (Locks).
Performance instructions: For orchestra (individual parts provided for flute, oboe, clarinet (in b flat), bassoon, horn (in F), trumpet (in b flat), timpani, violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass)
Recordings: "Steve Locks Remember." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Computer Simulation. 2019. IMSLP, https://imslp.org/wiki/Remember_(Locks%2C_Stephen_Mark)
Locks, Steve; music (British, born 1964)
Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
Other data reference(s): Locks, Steve. "Remember", Steve Locks Compositions, https://sites.google.com/view/stevelockscompositions/home/remember.
Cataloguer: Emily Lapen and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Remember_(Locks%2C_Stephen_Mark). Accessed 2019.
"Remember" [source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Remember_(Locks%2C_Stephen_Mark)] by Stephen Mark Locks [https://sites.google.com/site/stevelocks/music], is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The work appears here unmodified.
49 pages (complete score and parts); performance time 6-7 minutes
Composition history: The composer was inspired to compose a setting for "Remember" by a reference to the poem in a television show he watched: "Strange how coincidences crop up. In one of our soap operas, An ex-teacher is helping a young student to pass her exam certificate and is teaching her poetry. The poem he has chosen is Christian Rossetti’s "Remember" (Daubney).
Daubney, Brian Blyth; music (English, born 1929)
Other data reference(s): Daubney, Brian Blyth. "Coincidences." Received by Mary Arseneau, 15 June 2019.
This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of Brian Blyth Daubney.
Notes about the text: "This piece was inspired by recent world events, specifically a number of violent attacks. I am mindful of the quotation from Leonard Bernstein: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This piece aims to be cathartic. My hope is that by expressing the grief and pain, we can then go on living without giving in to fear, anger, or hate." (ChoralWiki)
Tempo markings: "Grave", quarter note = 45-50
Performance instructions: "Performance notes: The first two bars: a single voice should commence by whispering "remember", followed by a chorus of whispers (each person in their own time). Simultaneously, the basses should start singing. The aim is for the bass entry to not be noticed. The next two bars: a single voice leads with "remember me", followed by the whisperers switching gradually from "remember" to "remember me". The whispering continues in each part until they start singing (so the Altos finish whispering last, in bar 8). Brackets indicate parts of the word that should not be sounded. Bars 49-50: the Alto part is the most important, and should stand out. The two fermata in bar 107 should be slight pauses (more like a rit, with an a tempo in the following bar)."
Performance history: "Remember me, and Nebo, Nebo, and I know a place, 26 and 27th of April 2019, University Presbyterian Church, Collegium Musicum at the University of Texas at Austin, directed by Rachel Davis. They have kindly given permission to share the recordings: Remember me, Nebo Nebo, I know a place." "Remember me (Michael Winikoff)."
Recordings: "Remember Me." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Rachel Davis, conductor, and Collegium Musicum at The University of Texas at Austin, 2019. Winkioff Music, https://profwinikoff.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/02-remember-me.mp3. Accessed 22 May 2020.
Other data reference(s): "Remember me (Michael Winikoff)." ChoralWiki. www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Remember_me_(Michael_Winikoff). Accessed May 18, 2019. "Michael Winikoff." WordPress, https://winikoffmusic.wordpress.com/. Accessed May 18, 2019.
Cataloguer: Robyn Finlay and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
"Remember me (Michael Winikoff)." ChoralWiki. www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Remember_me_(Michael_Winikoff). Accessed May 18, 2019.
4 pages; performance time 5 minutes and 30 seconds
"Sleeping at Last" [Douglas Brooks-Davies]
First line of lyrics: Sleeping, sleeping at last
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of stanzas 1 and 2 only.
Tempo markings: quarter note = 65; "Tenderly"
Brooks-Davies, Douglas; music (English, born 1942)
This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of Douglas Brooks-Davies.
Record: CRM-sleepingatlast-brooks-davies
File(s): CRM-sleepingatlast-brooks-davies.pdf
"Roses on a Brier" [Douglas Brooks-Davies]
File(s): CRM-rosesonabrier-brooks-davies.pdf
First line of lyrics: The Advent moon shines cold and clear
genre: choral music|anthem|sacred music|song
Rossetti poem(s): "Advent" ("This Advent moon shines cold and clear")
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of stanzas 1, 3, 6, and 7, with minor textual deviations and rearrangements. Brooks-Davies also adds the words "Lullaby, lullaby" between stanzas 3 and 7.
Record: CRM-adventthisadvent-brooks-davies
File(s): CRM-adventthisadvent-brooks-davies.pdf
"Despised and Rejected" [Douglas Brooks-Davies]
First line of lyrics: "Friend, open to Me." Who is this that calls?
genre: choral music|Easter music|sacred music|song
Rossetti poem(s): "Despised and Rejected"
Notes about the text: The lyrics include lines from stanzas 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 in Rossetti's poem.
Composition history: "A setting for Lent, and especially Passion Sunday, of part of Christina Rossetti’s awesome and chilling poem of the same name. My simple SATB setting, with its minimal accompaniment and harmony and hints of recitative, is intended to suggest the remote bleakness of plainsong and thus underscore the utter loneliness of the one who refuses to listen to the caller, thereby himself becoming outcast and rejected. The Biblical roots of the poem lie in Lamentations, 1:12 and Isaiah, 53:3ff." ("Brooks-Davies: Despised and Rejected (anthem for Lent) SATB choir + piano")
Other data reference(s): "Brooks-Davies: Despised and Rejected (anthem for Lent) SATB choir + piano." Score Exchange, https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/56703.html. Accessed 15 July 2019.
Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Brooks-Davies: Despised and Rejected (anthem for Lent) SATB choir + piano". Score Exchange, https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/56703.html. Accessed 15 July 2019.
"© Douglas Brooks-Davies 2007. All rights reserved." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of Douglas Brooks-Davies.
Record: CRM-despisedandrejected-brooks-davies
File(s): CRM-despisedandrejected-brooks-davies.pdf
"Remember me when I am gone away" [Douglas Brooks-Davies]
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey and Robyn Finlay, University of Ottawa
"Copyright © 2006 Douglas Brooks-Davies." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of Douglas Brooks-Davies.
First line of lyrics: Lullaby, oh, lullaby!
genre: children's music|song|choral music
Rossetti poem(s): "'Lullaby, oh lullaby!'"
Composition history: This song was composed for The Year Book Press Series book called "Kookoorookoo and Other Poems" (1916). On the title page of the H.F.W. Deane & Sons publication, it states: "Words used by permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd." "Koorookookoo and Other Poems" contains 26 songs, each setting a poem from Rossetti's collection "Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book." The Preface from "Koorookookoo and Other Poems" states: "'I will set as many as you like at once.' Such a stimulating remark from an English composer at the head of his profession could not fail to turn the scales in the mind of a hesitating Editor who wondered whether he was right in suggesting the musical treatment of the charming yet simple verses of Christina Rossetti. The Editor at once approached some of the many composers who have already shown through their sound work that there are men in England competent to help our children in forming a native musical appreciation based on contemporary English musical thought. One and all readily and cheerfully gave of their best, and the Editor and Publisher here record their grateful thanks. The Editor believes that the English public will welcome such work, and that the pleasure which the composers were pleased to express in doing the work will be equally felt by the children—grown-up and young—for whom this book is written. A unique 'Contents' page adds a touch of personal interest in the book." Ives (DM202-DM227) writes "the collection originated with Martin Ackerman, the editor of the Year Book Press Music Series."
Davies, H. Walford [Henry Walford], Sir; music (English, 1869-1941)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM227; Gooch and Thatcher 4594
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
musical score: "Lullaby." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London,Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, p. 48. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
London: The Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd.; London : H. F. W. Deane & Sons The Year Book Press Ltd.
First line of lyrics: Mix a, mix a, mix a pancake
Wood, Charles; music (Irish, active and died in English, 1866-1926)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM226; Gooch and Thatcher 4634
musical score: "Mix a pancake." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, p. 47. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
"Copyright, 1916, by The Year Book Press"
Performance instructions: Note at the bottom of the score: "The voice should linger on the last letter in bell."
Parratt, Walter; music (English, 1841-1924)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM225; Gooch and Thatcher 4721
musical score: "Sing me a song." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, p. 46. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
"Ferry Me Across the Water" [C.V. Stanford]
First line of lyrics: "Ferry me across the water"
Rossetti poem(s): "'Ferry me across the water'"
Stanford, Charles Villiers, Sir; music (Irish, died in England, 1852-1924)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM224; Gooch and Thatcher 4413
Cataloguer: Sarah Shepherd, University of Ottawa
musical score: "Ferry me across the river." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, pp. 44-45. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
"Who has seen the wind?" [Sir Frederick Bridge, C.V.O.]
First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?
Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"
Bridge, John Frederick, Sir; music (English, 1844-1924)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM223; Gooch and Thatcher 4875
Cataloguer: Jacob Spence, University of Ottawa
musical score: "Who has seen the wind?." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, pp. 42-43. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
"A pin has a head, but has no hair" [Charles H. Lloyd]
First line of lyrics: A pin has a head, but has no hair
Rossetti poem(s): "'A pin has a head but has no hair'"
Lloyd, Charles Harford; music (English, 1849-1919)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM222; Gooch and Thatcher 4685
musical score: "A pin has a head, but has no hair." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, pp. 40-41. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
"What do the stars do?" [Donald Francis Tovey]
First line of lyrics: What do the stars do
Rossetti poem(s): "'What do the stars do'"
Tempo markings: "Calmly, without dragging, but well sustained."
Tovey, Donald Francis, Sir; music (British, 1875-1940)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM221; Gooch and Thatcher 4852
musical score: "What do the stars do?." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, pp. 38-39. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.
"The wind has such a rainy sound" [C. Hubert H. Parry]
First line of lyrics: The wind has such a rainy sound
Rossetti poem(s): "'The wind has such a rainy sound'"
Parry, C. Hubert H. [Charles Hubert Hastings], Sir; music (English, 1848-1918)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM220; Gooch and Thatcher 4892
musical score: "The wind has such a rainy sound." Kookoorookoo and Other Songs. London, Year Book Press, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1916, pp. 36-37. Scott Library, York University, Toronto.