First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
other version 1 - instrumentation: orchestra
Recordings: "Echo by Christina Rossetti, set to music by Carl Eden." Performance by Deborah Freedman, soprano and Carl Eden, piano at Bretton Hall College, West Yorkshire, 1986. YouTube, uploaded by Carl Eden, 10 Aug. 2012, https://youtu.be/IAJEHQLeF8k. Performance by Jan Moon, soprano with orchestra accompaniment, mid 2000s. MP3 file. (Eden)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Other data reference(s): Eden, Carl. "Christina Rosetti Composition." Received by Mary Arseneau. 16 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
sound recording with orchestra: Carl Eden
This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer Carl Eden.
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performance time 2 minutes and 59 seconds
File(s): CRM-echo-eden.pdf; CRM-echo-eden.mp3
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Composition history: "The composer writes: 'This song was written in the same year that my mother died: which may go some way to explain why I was drawn to the text at that time. The poem is about longing and loss, and the setting, though fairly austere, sets up a rather feverish, intense atmosphere. There are also in the accompaniment some deliberate echoes of a Chopin waltz, music which I have always associated, for some reason, with feelings of dreaming and nostalgia'" ("Echo").
Tempo markings: "Andante"; quarter note = 70
Assersohn, Ian; music (English, born 1958)
Other data reference(s): "Biography." Apple Tree Music: The Choral Music of Ian Assersohn, Apple Tree, http://www.appletreemusic.net/ian/default.htm. "Echo." SpartanPress, Spartan Press, 2018, http://www.spartanpress.co.uk/spweb/details.php?catno=RM269. Acccessed 2 Mar. 2018.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa
musical score: "Echo." SpartanPress, Spartan Press, 2018, spartanpress.co.uk/spweb/details.php?catno=RM269. Accessed 2 Mar. 2018.
"© Copyright 2010 Recital Music. All rights reserved."
chorus: SATB chorus|SATB voices with divisi
Composition history: In the front matter of the score under "About the Work", the composer states: "I was very pleased when John Erwin asked me to write a set of pieces for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Arkansas Chamber Singers [commissioned in 2003 ("Commissions")]. I chose four poems I had long admired but never set. The poems deal with aspects living and loving, hence the title of the set, "Of Life and Love." The four pieces are conceived as a suite, with the progression of the texts and the music telling a story of awakening to love, opening oneself to love, loving through loss, and finally, anticipating the return of love." The choral suite "Of Life and Love", includes: "Awake, My Heart" (Robert Bridges), "in time of daffodils" (E. E. Cummins), "Echo" (Christina Rossetti), and "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight" (Thomas Campion) ("Compositions".) "[H]is choice of text stems from his college experience with and affection for Norman Dello Joio's setting of the same poem" ("Echo").
Tempo markings: "Tenderly"; quarter note = 76
Performance history: Debut performance by the Arkansas Chamber Singers, John Erwin, conductor. Performanced on 8 May 2011 by Arizona Repertory Singers at Christ Church United Methodist in Tucson, Arizona. ("Echo by David Dickau")
Recordings: dinity. "Echo -- Cloud Strife x Aerith Gainsborough." Clips from "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII" video game. YouTube, uploaded 16 Sept. 2007, https://youtu.be/VoLCmGb9dtc.
Dickau, David C.; music (American, born 1953)
Other data reference(s): "Echo." American Choral Directors Association, American Choral Directors Association, acda.org/ACDA/ACDA/Echo.aspx. Accessed 2 Mar. 2018. "Commissions." David C. Dickau, https://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/cm3426ht/Commissions.html. Accessed 2 April 2020. "Compositions." David C. Dickau, https://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/cm3426ht/Commissions.html. Accessed 2 April 2020. "Echo by David Dickau performed by Arizona Repertory Singers." YouTube, uploaded by MrThistleFlower, 15 May 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJiSf0KB5E.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Echo." Walton Music, GIA Publications, https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/echo-print-wjms1083. Accessed 2 April 2020.
"Copyright © 2006 Walton Music Corporation. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. www.waltonmusic.com"
12 pages; performance time 4 minutes and 53 seconds
"My heart is like a singing bird" [Alan Gray]
First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
Notes: Published as part of the song collection "Three songs" which includes 1. "My heart is like a singing bird" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "The song of a bird in May" (Walter Headlam); 3. "The joy of life" (M. F. Vickers).
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4217
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
musical score: Gray, Alan. "My heart is like a singing bird." Three Songs, Stainer & Bell, 1911, pp. 3-5. The British Library, London
London: Stainer & Bell; Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel; Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt
"Copyright in U.S.A. 1911 by Stainer & Bell Ltd."
Tempo markings: "Estatico"; quarter note = about 90
Performance instructions: The solo may be sung by either a soprano or tenor.
Notes: The second song of three in the song collection "Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti" which includes 1. "The lamb and the dove"; 2. "A birthday"; 3. "Gone were but the winter."
Gibbs, C. Armstrong [Cecil]; music (English, 1889-1960)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4215
Other data reference(s): Record for "Three lyrics by Christina Rossetti. No. 2, A birthday." Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph015114864&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019. Record for "Three lyrics by Christina Rossetti. Op.131,no.1-3. [Songs]. 1. The lamb and the dove. 2. A birthday. 3. Gone were but the winter." Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph019953946&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.
musical score: Sibley Music Library, Rochester, New York
"Copyright 1953, by the Oxford University Press, London"
"My Love is Come to Me" [Arthur Frackenpohl]
Composition history: A handwritten note on the score indicates that the piece was composed while the composer was in "Potsdam, N.Y."
Tempo markings: "Slowly to moderately"; quarter note = 80
Frackenpohl, Arthur; music (American, born 1924)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4214
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
Other data reference(s): Record for "A birthday : for mezzo soprano with piano accompaniment." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33921609. Accessed 29 Jan. 2019.
musical score: Julia E. Crane Memorial Library, State University Teachers College, Potsdam, New York
1952 Aug 31 [composition]; 1961 [publication]
File(s): CRM-birthday-frackenpohl-nopub.pdf
"My heart is like a singing bird" [Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]
Performance history: Performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus on April 7, 2013 ("Vassar College Women's Chorus").
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario; music (American, born in Italy, 1895-1968)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4210
Other data reference(s): "Vassar College Women's Chorus." Vassar, http://music.vassar.edu/concerts/webcast/2013/2013-04-07-womens-chorus.html. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019.
musical score: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario. Four Christina Rossetti Songs. Galaxy Music Corporation, 1952, pp. 2-7. University of Toronto Music Library, Toronto
Record: CRM-birthday-castelnuovo-tedesco
File(s): CRM-birthday-castelnuovo-tedesco.pdf
Place in the larger work: One of three songs in the song cycle called "A Set of Three," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include "Who has seen the wind?"; "If I were a Queen"; "A Birthday".
Performance history: Debut performance of the song cycle: March 1969, Arkadelphia, Arkansas (Gooch and Thatcher 4208). Performance of the song cycle: 9 March 1971, Student Recital Series, Voice Department, North Texas State University, performance by Mary Ella Antahades, soprano, Myrna Brown, flute, Clyde Miller, horn, at the recital hall. ("School of Music Program Book")
Brown, Newel Kay; music (American, born 1932)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4208
Other data reference(s): "School of Music Program Book 1970-1971, Page 200." UNT Digital Library, University of North Texas, https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc79462/m1/202/?q=november%2022. Accessed 26 Jun 2020.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Notes about the text: After the first stanza, the line "My love is come to me" is repeated. The entirety of the poem is to be sung twice.
Notes: A note at the top of the score states "Words by Christina Rossetti (by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd.)" A reviewer for the Musical News notes that Lockitt treats Rossetti's poem in a "simple and lyric manner, with which no fault can be found, as his melody is graceful and expression" (Review of "A Birthday").
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM169
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Other data reference(s): Review of "A Birthday," by Walter J. Lockitt. Musical News, 4 Mar. 1899, 233. British Periodicals, https://search.proquest.com/docview/7466437?accountid=14701. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
musical score: The British Library, London
Notes about the text: Burleigh substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit."
Performance instructions: This solo is for mezzo-soprano or baritone.
Notes: The second song of three in the song collection called "Three Songs" which includes 1. "If you but knew" ("Translated from the French); 2. "A Birthday Song" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Life" (John Boyle O'Reilly).
Burleigh, H.T. [Henry Thacker]; music (American, 1866-1949)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4209; Ives DM158
musical score: Burleigh, H.T. "A Birthday Song." Three Songs, G. Schirmer, 1898, pp. 3-5. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Place in the larger work: The seventh song of nine in the song cycle called "Love's Kaleidoscope" which includes 1. "To the Virgins / Upon Julia's Clothes / Chop Cherry" (Robert Herrick) (Tenor); 2. "Matin Song" (Thomas Heywood) (Soprano); 3. "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" (Christopher Marlow) (Tenor); 4. "Love is Enough" (William Morris) (Duet); 5. "Never Love Unless" (Thomas Campion) (Soprano); 6. "Longing" (Matthew Arnold) (Tenor); 7. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti) (Soprano); 8. "Return" (John Wilmot) (Tenor); 9. "Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor" (John Dryden) (Soprano).
Composition history: This is the second of two different musical settings of Rossetti's poem "Echo" by composer Daniel Steven Crafts. When asked to comment on what motivated him to write two different settings of "Echo," Crafts responded: "Bittersweet Dreams was written first. Here I wanted to emphasize the almost mystical, otherworldly sense of the words to begin the sequence. Love's Kaleidoscope presents the subject of romance from many historical viewpoints and attitudes, and here I wanted to bring out more of the sense of longing in the poem." (Crafts)
Tempo markings: "Sognante"; quarter note = 54
Performance instructions: The song cycle is "For Tenor and Soprano | String Orchestra, or Piano reduction"
Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)
Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 13 July 2017.
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, Department of English, University of Ottawa
musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts
This work is protected by copyright. The score appears in Christina Rossetti in Music by kind permission of the copyright holder, composer Daniel Steven Crafts.
First line of lyrics: I was a cottage maiden
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"
Performance instructions: "(a setting of three poems by Christina Rossetti) | for mezzo-soprano and piano or string orchestra"
Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 12 July 2017.
Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"
Composition history: This is the first of two different musical settings of Rossetti's poem "Echo" by composer Daniel Steven Crafts. When asked to comment on what motivated him to write two different settings of "Echo," Crafts responded that "Echo" "for "Bittersweet Dreams was written first. Here I wanted to emphasize the almost mystical, otherworldly sense of the words to begin the sequence. Love's Kaleidoscope presents the subject of romance from many historical viewpoints and attitudes, and here I wanted to bring out more of the sense of longing in the poem." (Crafts)
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
"The First Spring Day" [Daniel Steven Crafts]
First line of lyrics: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
Rossetti poem(s): "The First Spring Day"
Place in the larger work: The second song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"
Tempo markings: "Largo"; quarter note = 56
First line of lyrics: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet
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. "The First Spring Day"; 2. "When I Am Dead"; 3. "A Birthday".
Notes: Also published by Novello, Ewer & Co., in Mackenzie's song collection "Eighteen Songs," book three (of three), which includes two song cycles (opus 17 and 16): 1. "The first spring day" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "When I am dead" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Up with the sail" (J. Logie Robertson); 5. "O roaming wind" (J. Logie Robertson); 6. "Something sad" (J. Logie Robertson).
Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell, Sir; music (Scottish, 1847-1935)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM33; Gooch and Thatcher 4419
Other data reference(s): Record for “Three songs, op. 17.” WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646695297. Accessed 19 Oct. 2018.
Cataloguer: Abbey Jurgeneit and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
music score: Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell. Eighteen Songs. Op. 17 and 31 [etc.], London: Novello and Company, n.d., pp. 61-76. Robarts Library, University of Toronto.
London and New York: Novello, Ewer and Co.
File(s): CRM-firstspringday-mackenzie.pdf
"Come to Me in Dreams" [Mrs. Lynedoch Moncrieff]
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one sharp
Composition history: "The words by Christina G. Rosetti [sic] (By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.)"
Dedication: "Composed expressly for, and sung by Miss Damian"
Moncrieff, Nita Gaetano, Mrs. Lynedoch Moncrieff; music (British, born Antoinette Gaëtano in 1851)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM86
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
musical score in F: British Library, London
"May be sung in public without fee or license."
"A Birthday / Ein Geburtstag." "A Birthday" [Frederic H. Cowen]
First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird / Mein Herz ist wie ein Vögelein
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: two flats
other version 2 - instrumentation: piano
other version 2 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Tempo markings: "Poco allegretto ma appassionato"; quarter note = 72
Recordings: Cowen, Frederic H., et al., "A birthday : my love is like a singing bird /​ F. H. Cowen. The cuckoo /​ [music by] Liza Lehmann." Performance by Rosina Buckman, soprano with orchestra. Columbia Record, 1900. Trove, National Library of Australia, https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23973534. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.
Dedication: "To my friend William Shakespeare" (English version)
Notes: Two versions of this piece in D flat (five flats) have been identified, one with lyrics in both English and German, and one with only English lyrics. Another version in B flat (two flats) has been located in British Library (Ives DM105).
Cowen, Frederic H. [Hymen]; music (English, born in Jamaica, 1852-1935)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4212; Ives DM105
musical score in D flat in German and English: University of Maine, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/4816/
musical score in D flat in English: Cowen, Frederic H. "A Birthday." Twelve Songs, Joseph Williams, 1892, pp. 46-49. Royal Academy of Music Library, London
London: Joseph Williams; New York: Edward Schuberth & Co.
File(s): CRM-birthday-cowen-dflat-ger-eng.pdf; CRM-birthday-cowen-dflat-eng.pdf
First line of lyrics: A Robin said: The Spring will never come
instrumentation: saxophone (alto)|marimba
Place in the larger work: The first song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
Tempo markings: "Allegro"; quarter note = 120
Performance history: Premiered November 1999 at the Riddell Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, with Lynn Channing, soprano, Karen Finnsson, sax, Bruce Brander, marimba.
Dedication: "for Lynn Channing, Karen Finnsson and Bruce Brander"
Schudel, Thomas; music (Canadian, born in the United States, 1937)
Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
musical score: Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
5 pages (pp. 1-5); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
First line of lyrics: I wish I could remember that first day
Place in the larger work: The third song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
Notes about the text: This song is a setting "I Wish", sonnet number 2 in "Monna Innominata."
Tempo markings: "Andante"; quarter note = 72
6 pages (pp. 9-14); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
First line of lyrics: No! No! No! No! I never said I loved you, John:
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
Notes about the text: Schudel omits small passages and moves others. Additional text is found at the beginning and the end of the song: "No! No! No! No!" are "spoken decisively" at the beginning.
Tempo markings: "Allegro"; quarter note = 132
8 pages (pp. 15-22); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
First line of lyrics: Somewhere or other there must surely be
Place in the larger work: The fourth song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
Tempo markings: "Adagio mysterioso"; quarter note = 60
Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 24 March 2020.
3 pages (pp. 12-14); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [Jack Gibbons]
Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"|"'If I were a Queen'"
Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts
Notes about the text: Combines the text of two Rossetti poems, "A Birthday" and "If I were a Queen," into one song.
Composition history: "Three years ago I was asked by the President of Davis & Elkins College to write a work to celebrate the 75th West Virginia Mountain State Forest Festival, whose 78th festival is taking place in Elkins West Virginia this week. The Mountain State Forest Festival, one of the largest and oldest festivals in West Virginia, was established to promote the beauty and splendor of this scenic and wildlife-abundant State, with an emphasis on conservation." (Gibbons)
Performance instructions: For two sopranos and mixed chorus.
Performance history: "It received two performances during the 2011 Forest Festival, an evening concert performance by the choir of Davis & Elkins College (conducted by their choral director Liz Marshall-McVean) and then a special outside presentation as a prelude to the 'Queen Silvia Coronation ceremony' (a mock-royal event that has taken place at every Forest Festival since its founding in 1930, and which symbolizes a love of nature and the rural beauty of West Virginia). The two Christina Rossetti poems were chosen for their aptness for the occasion: "A birthday" is a wonderful celebratory poem, appropriate not only for the festival's 75th birthday but also because of Rossetti's beautiful references to mother nature. The second poem, "If I were a Queen", is one of Christina Rossetti's delightful children's poems from her 1872 collection 'Sing-Song'. I chose it for the slower central chorale to mark the Coronation of Queen Silvia." For the first performances, the soprano solos were sung by Hillary Barlow and Danielle Riggins" (Gibbons).
Recordings: Gibbons, Jack. "Gibbons: 'My heart is like a singing bird' Op.91." Live performance by Danielle Riggins and Hillary Barlow, soprano soloists, with the choir of Davis & Elkins College conducted by Liz Marshall-McVean on 6th October 2011. YouTube, uploaded 7 Oct. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMiwGtIf1Q. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019. Gibbons, Jack. "Jack Gibbons: 'My heart is like a singing bird' Op.91." Rehearsal performance by Danielle Riggins and Hillary Barlow, soprano soloists, with the choir of Davis & Elkins College conducted by Liz Marshall-McVean on 6th October 2011. YouTube, uploaded 2 Oct. 2014, https://youtu.be/dne4vMtCzN4. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019.
Dedication: "'My heart is like a singing bird' is dedicated, with much gratitude and affection, to Buck and Joni Smith" (Gibbons)
Gibbons, Jack; music (English, born 1962)
Other data reference(s): Gibbons, Jack. "My heart is like a singing bird." Facebook, 2 Oct. 2014, https://www.facebook.com/JackGibbonsPiano/posts/10152884827854384. Accessed 1 Feb. 2018. Gibbons, Jack. "Gibbons: 'My heart is like a singing bird' Op.91." YouTube, uploaded 7 Oct. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMiwGtIf1Q. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019.
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Recuerdo" which includes 1. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Recuerdo" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 3. "A Last Song (In Memoriam Jeffrey French)" (Louise Bogan).
Tempo markings: "Slow, mysterious, obsessive"; quarter note = 52
Recordings: "Recuerdo" Thomson/Bowlesl/Hoiby/ Hundley/Musto/Klein: Songs. Performance by William Sharp, baritone and Steven Blier, piano. New World Records, 1989. "John Musto: Recuerdo (Video Perusal Score)." YouTube, uploaded by SimeonStylites, 24 May 2017. https://youtu.be/V10H1fSCj2U.
Dedication: "For William Sharp and Steven Blier"
Musto, John; music (American, born 1954)
musical score for high voice: Musto, John. "Echo." Selected Songs for high voice and piano. Southern Music Publishing/Peer Musikverlag, 1995, pp.2-9. Library of the University of Texas at Austin.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "John Musto: Recuerdo (Video Perusal Score)." For medium voice. YouTube, uploaded by SimeonStylites, 24 May 2017. https://youtu.be/V10H1fSCj2U.
"COPYRIGHT 1988 By Southern Music Publishing Co. Ltd"
16 pages; performance time 6 minutes and 24 seconds (for medium voice). 8 pages (pp. 2-9); performance time 6 minutes and 24 seconds (for high voice)
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one flat
Composition history: The score states that "The words printed by kind permission of Messrs. MacMillan & Co." "Probably composed much earlier [than publication date]. Somerset [...] had contacted [Christina Rossetti] in 1880 for permission to publish settings of one or more of her songs. [Christina Rossetti] initially assented, but [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] convinced her to withdraw her consent because (as [William Michael Rossetti] wrote in his diary) 'there was not long ago a terrible scandal (but G. did not give C. any details of this) regarding Lord H. & a son of Mrs. Dalrymple' (WMRD 9 September 1880; see also Letters 2: 248)" (Ives DM129).
Somerset, Henry Richard Charles, Lord; music (English, 1849-1932)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4230; Ives DM129
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Katherine Rainville, University of Ottawa
File(s): CRM-birthday-somerset-Eflat.pdf; CRM-birthday-somerset-F.pdf
Recordings: Gibbons, Jack. "Gibbons: Echo, Op.18." Performance by Ann Mackay, soprano, Jack Gibbons, piano, recorded by Tony Faulkner at Henry Wood Hall, London, 17 Nov. 2003. YouTube, uploaded 24 April 2010, https://youtu.be/nzuwAHJYPeo.
Other data reference(s): "Echo." Jack Gibbons Pianist & Composer, jackgibbons.com/echo.htm. Accessed 2 Mar. 2018.