"Dreamland" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]

"Dreamland" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]

First line of lyrics: Where sunless rivers weep

Vaughan Williams, Ralph; music (English, 1872-1958)

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

1898? [composition]; 1905 [performance]; 1906 [publication] [copyright]

London: Boosey & Co.

genre: art song (lied)|song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: five flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Dream-Land"

Tempo markings: "Andante sostenuto"

Performance history: "First performance, London, Aeolian Hall, 31 October 1905, by Gervase Elwes (tenor) and Frederick B. Kiddle (pianoforte)" (Kennedy, p. 29)

Recordings: "Echo." Silent Noon: Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Ruth Golden, soprano and Levering Rothfuss, piano, recorded in April 1992 at the Recital Hall, Westbury, N.Y : Koch International Classics, 1993.
"Dreamland." Kissing her Hair: Twenty Early Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Iain Burnside, piano and Sarah Fox, soprano, Albion Records, 2008.

Notes: In key of D-flat major. "Whereabouts of MS, British Library, Copy (59796)" (Kennedy, p. 29)

Format 1: musical score

5 pages; performance time 4 minutes

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4354

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 29. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846.
Pearson, Jonathan and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Digital Issues). "Discography." The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, https://rvwsociety.com/discography/. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Virginia Ouimet and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: “Dreamland (Vaughan Williams, Ralph).” IMSP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Dreamland_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph). Accessed 31 Oct. 2018.

Record: CRM-dreamland-vaughanwilliams

File(s): CRM-dreamland-vaughanwilliams.pdf

"Copyright 1906 by Boosey & Co"

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