"When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [Wallace Southam]

"When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [Wallace Southam]

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

Southam, Wallace; music (English)

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

1966 [copyright] [publication]

London: Robbins Music Corp.

genre: song|song cycle|jazz

solo: low 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")

Tempo markings: "Slow blues"

Performance instructions:

Performance history:

Dedication: "For my wife"

Notes: From a collection entitled "Poetry Set in Jazz."

Format 1: musical score

2 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4784

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

Cataloguer: Claudia Laugalys, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Toronto Music Library, Toronto

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-southam

"© Copyright 1966 by ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION LIMITED, 35, Soho Square, London, W. 1."

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