"Up-hill" [Charles Wood]

"Up-hill" [Charles Wood]

Wood, Charles; music (Irish, active and died in English, 1866-1926)

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

1886 [composition]

genre: song|sacred music

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: orchestra

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Up-Hill"

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).

Format 1: musical score

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

Record: CRM-uphill-wood

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