"Echo" [Frederick Piket]

"Echo" [Frederick Piket]

Part of: "The Speaking Silence"

Piket, Frederick; music (Austrian-American, 1903-1974)

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

1957 [publication]

New York: Associated Music Publishers

genre: song|choral music|song cycle

chorus: women’s SSAA chorus

instrumentation: a cappella

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Place in the larger work: One of six songs in the song cycle called "The Speaking Silence" which includes "I Heard You" (Walt Whitman); "Spell" (Emily Brontë); "So Delicious" (Ben Jonson); "When the Lamp is Shattered" (Percy B. Shelley); "There Be None of Beauty's Daughters" (Lord Byron); "Echo" (Christina Georgina Rossetti).

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4380

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): Bureau of Public School Service, Austin, Texas, "Girls' Chorus" Prescribed Music. Revised for School Years Beginning 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966. The University of Texas: Austin. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/53997/2013-X-1339-RascoeElder.txt?sequence=2&isAllowed=y. Accessed 7 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-echo-piket

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