Christina Rossetti In Music

Christina Rossetti in Music Project

"When I Am Dead My Dearest" [Juliana Hall]

Title

"When I Am Dead My Dearest" [Juliana Hall]
First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest
Part of: "Christina's World"

Creator

Hall, Juliana; music (American, born 1958)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

2016 [composition]; 2017 [publication]

Publisher

Boston: E.C. Schirmer Music Co.

Subject

genre: song|song cycle|art song (lied)
solo: soprano
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
initial time signature: 3/4
origin: United States
female composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Place in the larger work: The fourth song of five in the song cycle called "Christina's World," settings of Christina Rossetti poems, including 1. "A birthday"; 2. "Who has seen the wind?"; 3. "Amor mundi"; 4. "When I am dead, my dearest"; 5. "Up-hill."
Composition history: Composed for soprano Gwen Coleman Detwiler, of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory’s voice faculty ("Juliana Hall"). On her website, Juliana Hall writes that "'the five songs of “Christina’s World,' on poems by Christina Rossetti, loosely follow a narrative arc beginning with the joyful emotions of true love, and continuing with darker observations about the nature of being alive and of the questions of life and death, the tension of which is resolved at the end of the cycle with a positive sense that as one approaches the end of this life, all will be well and find a place of welcome and rest" (Hall).
Tempo markings: "A Sentimental Waltz"; quarter note = 104-112
Performance history: Performed on April 18, 2017 at Wyoming Presbyterian Church (Hall) by soprano Gwen Coleman Detwiler and Marie-France Lefebvre on piano.
Dedication: "for Gwen Coleman Detwiler"

Format

Format 1: musical score
10 pages (pp. 38-47); complete song cycle performance time 18 minutes

Source

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
Other data reference(s): Hall, Juliana. "CHRISTINA’S WORLD." Julianahall.com, https://www.julianahall.com/christinas-world/. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
Cataloguer: Van A. Mantha-Ware, University of Ottawa
Musical score: Yale Music Library, Connecticut
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Christina's World." Morning Star Music, https://www.morningstarmusic.com/christina-s-world.html. Accessed 25 February 2018.

Identifier

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-hall

Rights

"© Copyright 2017 by E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved."
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Files

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Collection

Citation

Hall, Juliana; music (American, born 1958) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"When I Am Dead My Dearest" [Juliana Hall],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 14, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2003.

Item Relations

This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Up-hill" [Juliana Hall]
Item: "A birthday" [Juliana Hall] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Who Has Seen the Wind?" [Juliana Hall] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item