"Come to me" [Gustav Holst]

"Come to me" [Gustav Holst]

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

Part of: "Five Partsongs"

Holst, Gustav; music (English, 1874-1934)

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

1902 [publication]; 2019 [copyright]

Novello & Co.; CPDL

genre: song|choral music|part song|song cycle

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: a cappella

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in a song cycle called "Five Partsongs" which includes 1. Dream Tryst (Francis Thompson); 2. Ye little birds (Thomas Heywood); 3. Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee (Robert Herrick); 4. Now is the Month of Maying (Anonymous); 5. Come to me (Christina Rossetti).

Tempo markings: "Andante quasi adagio"

Format 1: musical score

4 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4377

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): "Gustav Holst." Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), ChoralWiki, http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gustav_Holst. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: "Come to me (Gustav Holst)." Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), ChoralWiki, submitted 23 Aug. 2019, http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Come_to_me_(Gustav_Holst).

Opus: 12, number 5

Record: CRM-echo-holst

File(s): CRM-echo.holst.pdf

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