"When I am dead" [Stephen McNeff]

"When I am dead" [Stephen McNeff]

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

Part of: "Image in Stone"

McNeff, Stephen; music (British, born 1951)

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

2007 pre [composition]

genre: song|song cycle

solo: mezzo-soprano

instrumentation: orchestra

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

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

Place in the larger work: The third song of four in the song cycle called "Image in Stone," which includes 1. "Image in Stone" (A Greek grave stele, 1st Century AD); 2. "Death Be Not Proud" (John Donne); 3. "Song" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "On the Beach at Night" (Walt Whitman).

Tempo markings: "Easily Flowing"; half note = 54

Format 1: musical score

16 pages (pp. 29-44)

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: The British Library, London

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-mcneff

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