Christina Rossetti In Music

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"Echo" [F. S. Converse]

Title

"Echo" [F. S. Converse]
Part of: "Two Songs" [op. 17]

Creator

Converse, Frederick Shepherd; music (American, 1871-1940)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1903 [composition] [publication] [copyright]

Publisher

Boston: Boston Music Co., G. Schirmer, Jr.

Subject

genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle
solo: soprano
instrumentation: piano
origin: United States
male composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
Place in the larger work: The first song of two in the song cycle called "Two Songs" which includes 1. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti), 2. "Ask Me No More" (Alfred Tennyson).
Performance history: "first sung by Alice Bates Rice in Boston on January 10, 1905" (Garofalo)

Format

Format 1: musical score
7 pages

Source

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4374
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
Other data reference(s): "Book Shelf." The Musician (Boston, MA), vol. 9, no. 6, June 1094, p. 234. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl-handle-net.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t48q0hn5r?urlappend=%3Bseq=344.
Garofalo, Robert Joseph. Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940): His Life and Music. Composers of North America, No. 14, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, N.Y & London, 1994, p. 25.
Record for "Echo, op. 17, no. 1." University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999851264402121. Accessed 5 Apr 2020.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: Evansdale Library, West Virginia University, Morgantown

Identifier

Opus: 17, number 1
Record: CRM-echo-converse

Rights

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Collection

Citation

Converse, Frederick Shepherd; music (American, 1871-1940) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Echo" [F. S. Converse],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 15, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2152.