"Echo" [Daniel Steven Crafts]

"Echo" [Daniel Steven Crafts]

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

Part of: "Bittersweet Dreams"

Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)

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

n.d.

genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle

solo: mezzo-soprano

instrumentation: piano|string quartet

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"

Composition history: This is the first of two different musical settings of Rossetti's poem "Echo" by composer Daniel Steven Crafts. When asked to comment on what motivated him to write two different settings of "Echo," Crafts responded that "Echo" "for "Bittersweet Dreams was written first. Here I wanted to emphasize the almost mystical, otherworldly sense of the words to begin the sequence. Love's Kaleidoscope presents the subject of romance from many historical viewpoints and attitudes, and here I wanted to bring out more of the sense of longing in the poem." (Crafts)

Performance instructions: "(a setting of three poems by Christina Rossetti) | for mezzo-soprano and piano or string orchestra"

Format 1: musical score

6 pages

Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 13 July 2017.

Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa

musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts

Record: CRM-echo-crafts-1

File(s): CRM-echo-crafts-1.pdf

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