"Echo" [David Dickau]

"Echo" [David Dickau]

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

Dickau, David C.; music (American, born 1953)

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

2006 [copyright]

Walton Music Corp.

genre: song|choral music

chorus: SATB chorus|SATB voices with divisi

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Composition history: In the front matter of the score under "About the Work", the composer states: "I was very pleased when John Erwin asked me to write a set of pieces for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Arkansas Chamber Singers [commissioned in 2003 ("Commissions")]. I chose four poems I had long admired but never set. The poems deal with aspects living and loving, hence the title of the set, "Of Life and Love." The four pieces are conceived as a suite, with the progression of the texts and the music telling a story of awakening to love, opening oneself to love, loving through loss, and finally, anticipating the return of love." The choral suite "Of Life and Love", includes: "Awake, My Heart" (Robert Bridges), "in time of daffodils" (E. E. Cummins), "Echo" (Christina Rossetti), and "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight" (Thomas Campion) ("Compositions".) "[H]is choice of text stems from his college experience with and affection for Norman Dello Joio's setting of the same poem" ("Echo").

Tempo markings: "Tenderly"; quarter note = 76

Performance history: Debut performance by the Arkansas Chamber Singers, John Erwin, conductor. Performanced on 8 May 2011 by Arizona Repertory Singers at Christ Church United Methodist in Tucson, Arizona. ("Echo by David Dickau")

Recordings: dinity. "Echo -- Cloud Strife x Aerith Gainsborough." Clips from "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII" video game. YouTube, uploaded 16 Sept. 2007, https://youtu.be/VoLCmGb9dtc.

Dedication: "for Sharon Rogers"

Format 1: musical score

12 pages; performance time 4 minutes and 53 seconds

Other data reference(s): "Echo." American Choral Directors Association, American Choral Directors Association, acda.org/ACDA/ACDA/Echo.aspx. Accessed 2 Mar. 2018.
"Commissions." David C. Dickau, https://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/cm3426ht/Commissions.html. Accessed 2 April 2020.
"Compositions." David C. Dickau, https://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/cm3426ht/Commissions.html. Accessed 2 April 2020.
"Echo by David Dickau performed by Arizona Repertory Singers." YouTube, uploaded by MrThistleFlower, 15 May 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJiSf0KB5E.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Echo." Walton Music, GIA Publications, https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/echo-print-wjms1083. Accessed 2 April 2020.

Record: CRM-echo-dickau

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