"Echo" [Lord Henry Somerset]

"Echo" [Lord Henry Somerset]

First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night

Somerset, Henry Richard Charles, Lord; music (English, 1849-1932)

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

1895 [publication]

London, New York, Melbourne: Chappell and Co. Ltd.

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one sharp

other version 2 - solo: voice

other version 2 - instrumentation: piano

other version 2 - initial sharps/flats: three sharps

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Composition history: "The words printed by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co."

Tempo markings: "Adagio con espressione"

Notes: "No. 1 in F; No.2 in G; No.3 in A."

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM131; Gooch and Thatcher 4385

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.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa

musical score in F: "Echo: song / the words by Christina Rossetti ; the music by Henry Somerset." National Library of Australia, https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/40236813. Accessed 27 March 2020.

musical score in A: "Echo: song / the words by Christina Rossetti ; the music by Henry Somerset." National Library of Australia, https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/42994048. Accessed 27 March 2020.

Record: CRM-echo-somerset

File(s): CRM-echo-somerset-F.pdf; CRM-echo-somerset-A.pdf

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