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"Love's Lament" [Michael Head]

Rossetti poem(s): "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")

Tags: art song (lied)| Head, Michael Dewar (English, 1900-1975)| language: English| male composer| origin: United Kingdom| piano| Rossetti poem: "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")| solo: voice| song

"A Lament" [Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]

Rossetti poem(s): "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")

Tags: Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (English, 1875-1912)| language: English| male composer| origin: United Kingdom| piano| Rossetti poem: "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")| solo: high voice| solo: low voice| song

"For Sweet Things Dying" [Robert H. Young]

Rossetti poem(s): "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")

Tags: a cappella| choral music| chorus: SATB voices with divisi| language: English| male composer| origin: United States| Rossetti poem: "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")| song| song cycle| Young, Robert H. (American, 1923-2011)