"When I am dead" [Malcolm Williamson]

"When I am dead" [Malcolm Williamson]

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

Part of: "Six English Lyrics"

Williamson, Malcolm; music (Australian, 1931-2003)

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

1969 [copyright]

London: Josef Weinberger Ltd

genre: song|song cycle|choral music

solo: low voice

instrumentation: violin|viola|cello|double bass|string orchestra

initial sharps/flats: three sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

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

Place in the larger work: The sixth song of six in a song cycle called "Six English Lyrics," which includes 1. "Go, lovely Rose" (Edmund Waller); 2. "Crossing the Bar" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson); 3. "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Sweet and Low" (Alfred Lord Tennyson); 5. "Jenny kiss'd me" (Leigh Hunt); 6. "When I am dead" (Christina Rossetti).

Tempo markings: "Poco Adagio"

Dedication: "for Nancy Evans" [song cycle]

Format 1: musical score

4 pages (pp. 21-24); performance time 15 minutes (song cycle)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4794

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

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

Cataloguer: Stephanie Malette, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Toronto Library, Toronto

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-williamson

"Copyright 1967/1969 Josef Weinberger Ltd."

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