"When I Am Dead" [Malcolm Leonard Lawson]

"When I Am Dead" [Malcolm Leonard Lawson]

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

Lawson, Malcolm Leonard; music (English, 1847-1918)

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

1877 [publication]

London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

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

Tempo markings: "Slow and Sad."

Performance history: "Lawson contributed a note about the publication and performance of the setting to Notes and Queries (17 March 1917: 214), in which he recounts CGR's response to a performance by Lawson's sister Kate at the home of William B. Scott" (Ives DM31).

Dedication: "To the Countess of Bective"

Notes: The attached document also includes another score from the collection: "Apparently a separate issue, although bound with Lawson's setting of John Suckling's 'Love's Resolves,' both of which were also collected in People's Songs and Ballads" (Ives DM31).

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 1-3)

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM31; Gooch and Thatcher 4768

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

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: The British Library, London

Opus: 8, number 10

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-lawson

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

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