"Echo" [Charles Wood]

"Echo" [Charles Wood]

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

Wood, Charles; music (Irish, active and died in English, 1866-1926)

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

1886 [composition]; 1927 [publication]

London, New York: Bossey & Co., Ltd.

genre: song

solo: high voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: five flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Tempo markings: "Adagio ma non troppo."

Notes: Published in 1927 by Boosey in a collection called "Five Songs for High Voice", which includes "The splendour falls", "Ask me no more" (both from "The Princess", Tennyson), "Fortune and her wheel" (from "The marriage of Geraint", Tennyson), "At the mid hour of night" (Thomas Moore), and "Echo" (Christina G. Rossetti).

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4389

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): Record for "Five Songs for high voice." WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/49557271. Accessed 15 Apr. 2020.
Banfield, Stephen. Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 529.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Royal Academy of Music Library, London

Record: CRM-echo-wood

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

"Copyright 1927 by Boosey and Co., Ltd"

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