"When I am dead" [Margaret Boyle]

"When I am dead" [Margaret Boyle]

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

Boyle, Margaret; music (active 1914)

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

1914 [publication]

London: Weeks & Co.

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

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

Tempo markings: "Very smoothly and quietly, with great simplicity"; quarter note = 104

Notes: Published as part of a collection of settings of Rossetti poems titled "Two Songs" which includes 1. "When I am dead"; 2. "A Birthday."

Format 1: musical score

3 pages

Other data reference(s): Record for "Two Songs, No. 1. When I am dead. No. 2. A Birthday. Words by C. Rossetti, etc." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004233359. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: The British Library, London

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-boyle

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

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