"Midwinter" [Robin Milford]

"Midwinter" [Robin Milford]

First line of lyrics: In the bleak midwinter

Part of: "The Passing Year or Rain, Wind and Sunshine"

Milford, Robin; music (English, 1903-1958)

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

1936 [copyright]

London: Oxford University Press

genre: cantata|children's music|choral music

chorus: children's two-part chorus

instrumentation: piano|strings|double bass

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 6/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("In the bleak mid-winter")

Place in the larger work: The eighth song of eleven in a cantata called "Rain, Wind, and Sunshine," which includes 1. "Leisure" (W.H. Davies); 2. "Weathers" (Thomas Hardy); 3. "Cuckoo Song" (Traditional); 4. "Mr. John Peel passes by" (piano duet); 5. "The Birds that sing on Autumn Eves" (Robert Bridges); 6. "Who has seen the wind?" (Christina Rossetti); 7. "Winter" (Tennyson); 8. "Midwinter" (Christina Rossetti); 9. "Mr. Ben Jonson's Pleasure" (piano duet); 10. "April 1885" (Robert Bridges); 11. "Spring" (Thomas Nashe).

Tempo markings: "Andante"

Performance instructions: A "short pause" to be made after "Midwinter" before the next song begins.

Notes: "The orchestra employed is Flute, Strings with optional Double Bass, and Piano (or the work may be performed with Piano only)."

Format 1: musical score

Contains tonic sol-fa notation

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4307

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Alberta Library, Alberta

Record: CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-milford

File(s): CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-milford.pdf

"Copyright 1936, by the Oxford University Press, London."

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