"When I am Dead, My Dearest" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]

"When I am Dead, My Dearest" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]

First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest

Vaughan Williams, Ralph; music (English, 1872-1958)

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

1903 [publication] [copyright]

London: Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd.

genre: song|art song (lied)

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Composition history: "By permission of Macmillan & Co., Ltd."

Tempo markings: "Andante sostenuto e mesto"

Performance history: "First performance, London, Aeolian Hall, 28 November 1905, by Alice Venning (soprano), accompanied by Samuel Liddle (pianoforte)" (Kennedy, p. 19)

Recordings: "When I Am Dead, My Dearest." Kissing her Hair: Twenty Early Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Iain Burnside, piano and Sarah Fox, soprano, Albion Records, 2008.

Notes: "D modal minor. Version also in G modal minor" (Kennedy, p. 19)

Format 1: musical score

4 pages; performance time 2 minutes and 20 seconds

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4790

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

Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 19. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846.
Pearson, Jonathan and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Digital Issues). "Discography." The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, https://rvwsociety.com/discography/. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Van A. Mantha-Ware and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: The British Library, London

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-vaughanwilliams

File(s): CRM-songwheniamdead-vaughanwilliams.pdf

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