First line of lyrics: Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Place in the larger work: The eleventh song of 12 in the song cycle of Rossetti poem settings called "An End" which includes 1. "Summer"; 2. "Somewhere or other"; 3. "A Birthday"; 4. "Song 1"; 5."From Metastasio"; 6. "Song 2"; 7. "Song 3"; 8. "Remember"; 9. "An end." 10. "Lines - circa 1875"; 11. "Uphill"; 12. "Sleeping at last."
Notes about the text: The three stanzas of Christina Rossetti's poem "Passing and Glassing" are interspersed throughout the song cycle, with the first stanza at the beginning of the cycle, the second between songs 6 and 7, and the third at the end of the song cycle.
Tempo markings: "Adagio'; half note = 144; quarter note = 72
Performance instructions: "A cycle of songs, for Soprano & Piano, to poems of Christina Rossetti (1830-94)." At the beginning of this piece, a note underneath the time signature says "very steady + precisely measured." A note written by the composer at the end of the score explains "Though the songs are intended to be sung in the cycle-form here presented, they can be sung separately, and each is self contained. All metronome markings are suggestions only, as are Pedal marks and fingering."
Notes: A note on the first page of the score indicates that the song cycle is an "Hommage a Benjamin Britten."
Keane, Robert; music (Australian, born 1948)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
musical score: University of New South Wales, Australia
Broadway, New South Wales: Australian Music Centre
"The copyright of this score belongs to its composer [Robert Keane]." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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.
Performance instructions: "Intended to be sung antiphonally" (Record for "Up-Hill (Kathryn Rose)").
Rose, Kathryn; music (Canadian, active in United Kingdom, born 1980)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Up-Hill (Kathryn Rose)." Choral Public Domain Library, http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Up-Hill_(Kathryn_Rose). Accessed 30 Mar. 2019.
musical score: Choral Public Domain Library, http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Up-Hill_(Kathryn_Rose). Accessed 22 July 2019.
Kathryn Rose, composer: "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. For a .pdf of this work please contact artsyhonker@gmail.com."
Procter-Gregg, Humphrey; music (English, 1895-1980)
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
Other data reference(s): Almond, Michael and John Turner. "Humphrey-Procter Gregg (1895-1980) - Compositions." Edition db, http://www.editiondb.com/Procter-Greggcompositions.htm. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018.
First line of lyrics: Does the road wind up hill all the way?
Notes about the text: In the last two lines, the mention of "beds" is removed, and the lines become "Will there be room for me and all who seek? / Yes room for all who come."
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM5
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Other data reference(s): Record for "Uphill." Cambridge Libraries Collections, University of Cambridge, https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44CAM_ALMA21354371230003606&context=L&vid=44CAM_PROD&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018.
musical score: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in the song cycle "Songs on life and death" which includes 1. "Come to me" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Do not stand..." (Mary Elizabeth Frye); 3. "Uphill" (Christina Rossetti).
Schoonenbeek, Kees; music (Dutch, born 1947)
Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Songs_on_Life_and_Death_(Schoonenbeek%2C_Kees). Accessed 22 July 2019
"© Canzona Music Dieren - The Netherlands," and composer Kees Schoonenbeck; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution_4.0. No changes have been made to the attached document.
Composition history: A composer's note alongside the score explains that Raphael "endeavored to translate the words of the poets into music" which she was inspired to do after hearing James Stephens chant the verses of "Fifteen Acres." She was "strongly impressed [. . .] by the close interrelationship of the cadence, rhythm, tone, and accent in his chanting, and in the music which the words had suggested." In her other settings since, she has kept "the melody as closely as possible in consonance with the spirit and metrical form of the verses." She goes on to write, "For example, the poem 'Up-hill' consists of eight questions and eight answers. The questions, in a minor tone, modulate successively upward, one half-step - a frantic quest for the solution of the eternal query - whither? The answers are treated in a major key, mysterious, confident, final." (Raphael, xi)
Performance instructions: In the Author's Note, Raphael writes "The music has been done only as a setting for the words - sung or chanted. To those who love poetry, and love to hear it read, chanted, or sung, this book is offered." (Raphael, xii)
Notes: The fifteenth song of seventeen in the song collection called "Madrigal and minstrelsy" which includes 1."Laughing song" (William Blake); 2. "Song" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "The fifteen acres" (James Stephens); 4. "A woman's last word" (Robert Browning); 5. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Shelley); 6. "Home they brought her warrior dead" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson;) 7. "Matin song" (Thomas Heywood); 8. "Little lamb" (William Blake); 9. "Sonnet XXIX" (William Shakespeare); 10. "Song no. 2" (Stephens); 11. "The fiddler of Dooney" (William Butler Yeats); 12. "Arab love song" (Francis Thompson); 13. "Night" (William Blake); 14. "Give a man a horse he can ride" (James Thomson); 15. "Up-hill" (Christina Rossetti); 16. "Nurse's song" (William Blake); 17. "When you are old" (William Butler Yeats). Each setting is accompanied by an illustration by Marc Harchberger (American, 1900-1975), who also illustrated the cover of the collection.
Other data reference(s): Raphael, Juliet. Madrigal and Minstrelsy. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
musical score: Raphael, Juliet. Madrigal and Minstrelsy. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Mary Mellish Archibald Memorial Library, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in the song cycle called "Christina's World," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A birthday"; 2. "Who has seen the wind?"; 3. "Amor mundi"; 4. "When I am dead, my dearest"; 5. "Up-hill."
Composition history: Composed for soprano Gwen Coleman Detwiler, of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory’s voice faculty (Hall). On her website, Juliana Hall writes that "'the five songs of “Christina’s World,' on poems by Christina Rossetti, loosely follow a narrative arc beginning with the joyful emotions of true love, and continuing with darker observations about the nature of being alive and of the questions of life and death, the tension of which is resolved at the end of the cycle with a positive sense that as one approaches the end of this life, all will be well and find a place of welcome and rest" (Hall).
Performance instructions: "An Arduous Path"
Performance history: Performed on April 18, 2017 at Wyoming Presbyterian Church (Hall) by soprano Gwen Coleman Detwiler and Marie-France Lefebvre on piano.
Hall, Juliana; music (American, born 1958)
Other data reference(s): Hall, Juliana. "CHRISTINA’S WORLD." Julianahall.com, https://www.julianahall.com/christinas-world/. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
Musical score: Yale Music Library, Connecticut
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Christina's World." E.C. Schirmer Music Company, https://www.canticledistributing.com/catalog/product/view/sku/8566*. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
"© Copyright 2017 by E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved."
13 pages (pp. 48-60); complete song cycle performance time 18 minutes
Part of: "Christina Rossetti, My Mother and Me"
Place in the larger work: The first song of five in the song cycle called "Christina Rossetti, My Mother and Me," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Uphill"; 2. "Sleeping At Last"; 3. "Song"; 4. "Remember"; 5. "Another Spring".
Tempo markings: "Maestoso"; quarter note = 58
Performance instructions: This solo is for mezzo-soprano or baritone.
Shaffer, Jeanne E.; music (American, 1925-2007)
musical score: Toronto Music Library, Toronto
"Copyright © 1997 by Arsis Press | 1719 Bay Street, S.E., Washington D.C. 20003 | All Rights Reserved."
4 pages (pp. 1-4); complete song cycle performance time 13 minutes
instrumentation: piano|string quartet|viola|violin|cello
Place in the larger work: The fourth song of five in the song cycle called "The Green Castle" which includes 1. "Not to sleep" (Robert Graves); 2. "Justus quidem tu es" (Gerard Manley Hopkins); 3. "Silence of the night" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Up-hill" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "The green castle" (Robert Graves).
Notes about the text: The first line "Does the road wind up-hill all the way?" is repeated at the end of the song.
Performance instructions: String quartet comprised of two violins, a viola, and a cello. "Note: Accidentals apply only to those notes before which they are placed. However some courtesy naturals have been scored."
Bertram, Michael; music (Australian, born 1935)
Other data reference(s): "Michael Bertram: Associate Artist." Australian Music Centre, December 2016, https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/bertram-michael. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018. Record for "The Green Castle". National Library of Australia catalogue, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2873598. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018.
musical score: National Library of Australia, Parkes, Australia
"Does the Road wind uphill all the Way?" [William Gardiner Hammond]
Performance instructions: "Hymn-Anthem for Mixed Quartette or Chorus - with Contralto Solo"
Hammond, William Gardiner; music (American, 1874-1945)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Does the Road wind uphill all the way?". British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004390945. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018.
"Copyright MCMVIII by the John Church Company"
Composition history: It states on the score that "'Uphill' was written as a piece to conclude a concert of music from around the world. The text, suggested by the conductor, was intended to represent feelings of '...we are home from our OE, and the home light is shining, and we are at peace - secure in the arms of family.' [. . .] "Uphill" was commissioned by The Hamilton Chorale (conductor: Julie Jackson-Gough)."
Performance instructions: "for SA(A)B and piano"
Performance history: 2010, New Zealand, in a concert "Around the World in 80 Minutes" by the Hamilton Chorale on July 31 at St Andrew’s Church, Bryce Street, Cambridge and August 1 at St Clare’s Church, Tuhikaramea Road, Hamilton.
Hamilton, David; music (New Zealand, born 1955)
Other data reference(s): "Around the World in 80 Minutes: 1." SOUNZ, July 31, 2010, Centre for New Zealand Music, https://www.sounz.org.nz/events/2005?locale=en. Accessed 2 Dec. 2019. "Around the World in 80 Minutes: 2." SOUNZ, Aug 1, 2010, Centre for New Zealand Music, https://www.sounz.org.nz/events/2006?locale=en. Accessed 2 Dec. 2019.
musical score: National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
"Copyright © David Hamilton 2010." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer David Hamilton.
Notes about the text: Substitutes "Shall I meet other wayfarers by night?" for "Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?" in the third stanza.
Harris, George, Jr.; music (American, 1884-1975)
musical score: New England Conservatory Library, Boston
"This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved by George Harris."
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of ten in the song cycle called "Nantucket Songs" which includes 1. "From Whence Cometh Song?" (Theodore Roethke); 2. "The Dance" (William Carlos Williams); 3. "Nantucket" (William Carlos Williams); 4. "Go, Lovely Rose" (Edmund Waller); 5. "Up-Hill" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "Mother, I Cannot Mind my Wheel" (Walter Savage Landor); 7. "Fear of Death" (John Ashbery); 8. "Thoughts of a Young Girl" (John Ashbery); 9. "Ferry Me Across the Water" (Christina Rossetti); 10. "The Dancer" (Edmund Waller).
Composition history: A note on the score states that "the cycle was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. It was composed between November, 1978 and May, 1979 on the island of Nantucket, hence the title. An apt subtitle might be 'Popular Songs', insofar as "Popular" means "entertaining" as opposed to "classically" indirect. Indeed, these songs -- merry or complex or strange though their texts may seem -- aim away from the head and toward the diaphragm. They are, as collegians say, emotional rather than intellectual, and need not to be understood to be enjoyed."
Performance instructions: "The questions must be nervous and hastening. The answers, as though by another voice, are cool and held back."
Performance history: First public and broadcast performance was by soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson with Ned Rorem at the piano, at the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, October 30, 1979.
Recordings: Rorem, Ned. Ned Rorem: The Nantucket Songs and Other Songs. Performance of the Nantucket Songs by Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano, Ned Rorem, piano as it was first broadcasted at the Library of Congress, Composers Recordings, Inc.1993; CD, Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., 2007. New World Records, http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=17439. (Rorem)
Other data reference(s): Rorem, Ned. Liner notes. Ned Rorem: The Nantucket Songs and Other Songs. Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., 2007. New World Records, http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=17439.
musical score: Carleton University Library, Ottawa
"This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc."
3 pages (pp. 14-16); complete song cycle performance time 18 minutes
File(s): CRM-uphill-rorem-first-four-bars.jpg; CRM-uphill-rorem-contents.jpg
"Does the road wind uphill all the way?" [Arthur Foote]
First line of lyrics: Does the road wind uphill, uphill all the way?
Tempo markings: "Not fast: expressively"
Performance instructions: "The sentences sung by the quartet should be mainly without accompaniment."
Foote, Arthur; music (American, 1853-1937)
musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, imslp.org/wiki/Does_the_Road_Wind_Uphill_all_the_Way%3F_(Foote%2C_Arthur)
File(s): CRM-uphill-foote.pdf; CRM-uphill-foote-bars1-2.jpg; CRM-uphill-foote-bars3-5.jpg; CRM-uphill-foote-index.jpg
Place in the larger work: Section III(a) of 10 sections in "Magnificat" as follows: I. "Magnificat"; I (a). "O we can wait no longer" (Walt Whitman); II. "Et Misericordia"; II (a). "Who is at my window" (Anonymous); III. "Fecit potenciam"; III (a). "Up-hill" (Christina Rossetti); IV. "Suscept Israel"; IV (a). "If there had anywhere appeared"; "Interlude"; V. "Gloria Patri" (Record for Magnificat).
Composition history: "This work was commissioned by the St Albans Chamber Choir with funds provided by the Eastern Arts Association."
Performance instructions: For orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes (2 doubling oboe d'amore), 1 bassoon, 3 trumpets, timpani/percussion (1 player), organ, strings). The composer suggests that "Magnificat" may be played in two different ways. Version I: the complete work as it appears in the score (duration: c. 34 minutes). Version II: a setting of the latin Magnificat using cuts made on score, which omits all the English texts, and using only soprano solo, chorus and orchestra (duration: c. 19 minutes).
Performance history: "First performed on 7 March 1981 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London by the St Albans Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Stangroom."
Brown, Christopher Roland; music (English, born 1943)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Magnificat". Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume III, Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity|score_movement|2339360. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018. This source maybe restricted except to subscribing institutions or individuals.
musical score: Royal Academy of Music Library, London
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: Record for "Magnificat". Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume III, Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity|score_movement|2339360. Accessed 27 Feb. 2018. This source maybe restricted except to subscribing institutions or individuals.
"This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved by Chester Roland Brown and Chester Music."
5 pages (pp. 34-39); version 1 performance time 34 minutes; version 2 performance time 19 minutes.
other version 1 - instrumentation: orchestra
Performance history: "While a pupil at RCM [Royal College of Music], he accompanied Anna Russell in a performance of his 'At the mid hour of night' and 'Up-hill' before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in June 1887" (Banfield, p. 26).
Notes: Manuscript available at The Library of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (Gooch and Thatcher 4841).
Wood, Charles; music (Irish, active and died in English, 1866-1926)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4841
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Other data reference(s): Banfield, Stephen. Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 26, 529.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Tempo markings: "Slowly and with great expression"
Performance instructions: For high or medium voice.
Treharne, Bryceson; music (Welsh, 1879-1948)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4840
Other data reference(s): Record for “Uphill”. Hollis Classic, Harvard Libraries, Harvard University, http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990032557470203941/catalog. Accessed 13 Feb. 2018.
musical score: Harvard College Library, Cambridge
"Copyright, 1917, by The Boston Music Co."
First line of lyrics: Does the road go up hill all the way?
Notes about the text: The first line of Rossetti's poem is "Does the road wind up-hill all the way?" but the first line of Sibyl's song is "Does the road go up hill all the way?" The final two lines of the poem are "Will there be beds for me and all who seek? / Yea, beds for all who come," while the last two lines of the song are "Will then be rest for me and all who seek. Yea rest for all who come."
Performance instructions: "molto legato"
Notes: The second song in the song collection called "Two Songs" by Sibyl, which includes 1. "When I am dead, my dearest" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Up Hill" (Christina Rossetti).
Sibyl; music (British, pseudonym, active 1870)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM15; Gooch and Thatcher 4838
Other data reference(s): Record for "Two Songs, Written by C. Rossetti. The Music by Sibyl." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004657177. Accessed 27 Oct. 2019. Review of Two Songs, by Sibyl. The Musical Times, Volume 14, 1 August 1870, p. 567. Google Books, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-lZGAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA567&dq=up-hill%20sibyl%20composer&pg=PA567#v=onepage&q=up-hill%20sibyl%20composer&f=false. Review of Two Songs, by Sibyl. The Musical World, Volume 48, 30 July 1870, p. 513. Google Books, https://books.google.ca/books?id=VJMPAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA513&dq=up-hill%20sibyl%20composer&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q=up-hill%20sibyl%20composer&f=false.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa; Anna Lewis, University of Ottawa
"Does the Road Wind Uphill?" [George Fergusson]
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4836
Tempo markings: "Andantino malinconico (Tempo di Siciliana)"
Performance instructions: "For Chorus of Women's Voices: Three-part"
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario; music (American, born in Italy, 1895-1968)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4834
Other data reference(s): Record for “Four Christina Rossetti Settings, for Women's Voices and Piano, op. 153.” WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/35187877. Accessed 7 Feb. 2018. Westby, James. "Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario." Grove Music Online, 2001. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05128
musical score: Royal Academy of Music, London
"Copyright, 1952, by Galaxy Music Corporation"
4 pages (pp. 2-5); performance time 2 minutes
Dedication: "Dedicated to Sir Walter Parratt"
Smith, Mabel Saumarez; music (British, 1873-1931)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM172
Other data reference(s): Record for "Up-hill. [Part-song.] Words by C. Rossetti." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004665285. Accessed 31 Mar. 2019.
musical score: The British Library, London
London: Charles Vincent; London: Stainer & Bell Ltd.
First line of lyrics: Does the road wind uphill all the way?
Composition history: "By kind permission of the Authoress and Messrs. Macmillan & Co."
Barrett Lennard, Emma, Lady; music (English, died 1916)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM126; Gooch and Thatcher 4837
Other data reference(s): Record for "Up Hill. Song, the words ... by C. G. Rossetti." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004477920. Accessed 30 Mar. 2019.
First line of lyrics: And so, Jeannie dwindled and went grey, and grew thin, until finally, Jeannie died.
genre: chamber musical|musical theatre|chamber opera
Notes about the text: Kath Burlinson’s libretto/book for this chamber musical adds a significant amount of new creative content, specifically, new characters and both spoken dialogue and sung original poetic text that are not part of Rossetti’s poem. The ghost of Jeannie [sic] is added as a solo singing role, and a new narrative frame is also introduced. This new narrative frame draws on details from Rossetti’s fictional work "Speaking Likenesses" (1874).
Composition history: Commissioned by the National Youth Musical Theatre.
Performance instructions: "A Chamber Musical in One Act, adapted from the poem by Christina Rossetti." Musical score with occasional brief sections of spoken dialogue; musical score for six female soloists, a large ensemble forming SATB chorus, orchestra accompaniment. "Goblin Market is a sung through work for ensemble and orchestra. What makes this piece different is that all of the main roles are for women and girls. The ensemble comprises of any number of young people. This is not an easy work. The score is a complex in harmonies, counterpoints and the orchestration is rich and dense. Goblin Market works at the opera-musical interface and is a challenging work for any company." ("Goblin Market")
Performance history: Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Youth Music Theatre UK production, George Square Theatre, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, August 2005 ("Goblin Market (2005)"); view the album of 125 photos of this production on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjCUxcKB. University of Cumbria, April 2009 and December 2013.
Notes: A chamber musical in one act, with musical numbers consisting of "Overture" (pp. 1-3); "Prologue" (pp. 4-10); "Chapter One" (pp. 11-23); "Chapter Two" (pp. 24-44); "Chapter Three" (pp. 45-56); "Chapter Four" (pp. 57-74); "Chapter Five" (pp. 75-95); "Chapter Six" (pp. 96-111); "Chapter Seven" (pp. 112-124); "Chapter Eight" (pp. 124-148); "Chapter Nine" (pp. 149-167); "Chapter Ten" (pp. 168-188).
Burlinson, Kath; adapted and additional text (British)
Other data reference(s): "Goblin Market." Josef Weinberger Music Publishing Group Vienna. http://www.weinberger.co.at/stage/detail.php?shopitem=1431&department=5&back=%2Fstage%2Fcontent.php%3Fdepartment%3D5%26page%3D6%23LinkMore_13. Accessed 17 March 2017. "Goblin Market (2005)." British Youth Music Theatre, https://britishyouthmusictheatre.org/shows/goblin-market-2005. Accessed 17 March 2017. Personal correspondence with librettist Kath Burlinson and Sean Gray of Josef Weinberger Limited.
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Stage Repertoire." Josef Weinberger Music Publishing Group Vienna. https://www.weinberger.co.at/stage/index.php. Accessed 27 Nov. 2019.
2003 [copyright]; 2009 February [publication]
This work is protected by copyright. For permissions and licensing rights please contact publisher Josef Weinberger Limited, London.
File(s): CRM-goblinmarket-mitchell-titlepage.pdf
First line of lyrics: Morning and evening
Notes about the text: Setting of part of the poem "Goblin Market" (lines 1-86)
Composition history: Commissioned by Dr. Lon Dehnert, director of the UCO Concert Chorale, University of Central Oklahoma.
Performance history: 1. Celebrating a Quarter of a Century of Compositions: Music of Samuel Magrill, Mitchell Hall Theatre, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, 5 September 1996; 2. Music From Manuscript, The University of Central Oklahoma Choral Society, Mitchell Hall Theatre, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, 14 October 1996; 3. The University of Central Oklahoma Choral Society performing at the Society of Composers' Regional Conference, Concert III, Potter Auditorium, Raley Chapel, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma, 21 February 1997 (Magrill)
Magrill, Samuel; music (American, born 1952)
Magrill, Samuel; abridged text (American, born 1952)
Other data reference(s): Magrill, Samuel. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau, 15 Nov. 2016.
Musical score: Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
"© Samuel Magrill 1996." This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer Samuel Magrill.
39 pages; performance time approximately 6 minutes
Notes about the text: The text was abridged by the composer. The score is preceded by the text of the complete original poem (pp. 4-19), with passages that are omitted in the opera libretto in italics.
Composition history: Commissioned by Rhymes with Opera, 2011. Douglas Buchanan commented that omitting the figure of Jeanie was not his decision but was done in response to time constraints (Buchanan).
Tempo markings: "With energy; threatening"; quarter note = c 69
Performance instructions: "for two Sopranos, Baritone, Violin, and Accordion." "The accordion part may be realized several ways, depending on the type of accordion available to the performer: [...] If an accordion with left-hand chordal buttons is not available, the left-hand part may be read by a bass-clef instrument, preferably a cello, while the available accordion plays the right-hand part."
Performance history: Premiered by Rhymes with Opera, Baltimore, MD, 2 Dec. 2011. Douglas Buchanan, conductor; Robert Maril, baritone; Elisabeth Halliday, soprano; Bonnie Lander, soprano; George Lam, violin; Ruby Fulton, accordion; and Lavena Johanson, cello. Video recordings of this premiere performance are available on vimeo and Youtube: "Goblin Market." vimeo, uploaded by Douglas Duchanan, 29 Nov. 2014, https://vimeo.com/113177630. | "Goblin Market." Youtube, uploaded by fultonruby, 12 Feb. 2012, https://youtu.be/Jwz1noyGMIU.
Buchanan, Douglas; music (American, born 1984)
Buchanan, Douglas; abridged text (American, born 1984)
Other data reference(s): Douglas Buchanan, www.dbcomposer.com. Accessed 14 March 2017. Buchanan, Douglas. "Following up on 'Goblin Market," Received by Mary Arseneau, 12 March 2016.
Musical score compliments of composer Douglas Buchanan.
Baltimore MD: 200 Miles to Arnstadt Publications
"200 Miles to Arnstadt Publications © 2007 (ASCAP)." All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of the copyright holder, composer Douglas Buchanan.
64 pages (pp. 21-84); performance time approximately 24 minutes