"Oh what comes over the Sea" [Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]

"Oh what comes over the Sea" [Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]

First line of lyrics: Oh what comes over the sea

Part of: "Six Sorrow Songs"

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel; music (English, 1875-1912)

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

1904 [publication] [copyright]; 1906 [copyright]

London: Augener Ltd.; Paris: Max Eschig; Boston: Boston Music Co.

genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle

solo: low voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 9/8

other version 1 - solo: high voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one sharp

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("Oh what comes over the sea")

Place in the larger work: The first song of six in the song cycle called "6 Sorrow Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems, which includes 1. "Oh what comes over the Sea"; 2. "When I am dead, my dearest"; 3. "Oh, Roses for the flush of youth"; 4. "She sat and sang alway"; 5. "Unmindful of the Roses"; 6. "Too late for love"

Composition history: "By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co."

Tempo markings: "Allegro, molto apassionato"

Performance history: Debut performance of the song cycle: "1904/V/18; Croydon; Public Hall; Marie Brema, mezzo-soprano" (de Lerma). Performance of the song cycle streamed live on Sep 23, 2020 in a concert at Wigmore Hall, London, with Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano and Simon Lepper, piano, YouTube, https://youtu.be/KuoYQydNjG4. Accessed 29 Sep. 2020.

Dedication: "To My Wife" [Jessie Coleridge-Taylor]

Notes: The song cycle was arranged with string quartet accompaniment by Cedric Sharpe (British, 1891-1978). (Gooch and Thatcher 4847)

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 1-3)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4847

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

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/

Other data reference(s): de Lerma, Dominique-René. 46. Works. "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)." AfriClassical.com, African Heritage in Classical Music, http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/song.html#46. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018.

Cataloguer: Warren Reid, University of Ottawa

musical score for low voice: University of Victoria Library, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

musical score for high voice: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/23607. Accessed 2 Oct. 2018.

Opus: 57, number 1

Record: CRM-songohwhatcomes-coleridge-taylor

File(s): CRM-songohwhatcomes-coleridge-taylor-low.pdf; CRM-songohwhatcomes-coleridge-taylor-high-p1.pdf

musical score for low voice: "Copyright 1904, by Augener & Co."
musical score for high voice: "Copyright 1906, by Augener & Co."

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