"Up Hill" [Sibyl]

"Up Hill" [Sibyl]

First line of lyrics: Does the road go up hill all the way?

Sibyl; music (British, pseudonym, active 1870)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1870 [publication]

London: A. Weekes & Co. Ltd.

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Up-Hill"

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."

Tempo markings: "Un poco lento"

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).

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM15; Gooch and Thatcher 4838

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.

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

musical score: British Library, London

Record: CRM-uphill-sibyl

File(s): CRM-uphill-sibyl.pdf

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