"Shall I Forget" [Charles Wood]

"Shall I Forget" [Charles Wood]

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

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

1887 [composition]; 1927 [publication]

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

genre: song

solo: low voice

instrumentation: piano

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Shall I Forget?"

Recordings: "Shall I Forget." Calen-O: Songs from the North of Ireland. Performance by Carolyn Dobbin, mezzo-soprano and Iain Burnside, piano, recorded at St. Mary's Haddington, Delphian, 2018.

Notes: Published in 1927 by Boosey and Hawkes in a collection called "Ten Songs for Low Voice." (Gooch and Thatcher 4717) (Banfield, p. 529)

Format 1: musical score

performance time 2 minutes and 42 seconds

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Tatcher 4717

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

Other data reference(s): Banfield, Stephen. Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 529.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-shalliforget-wood

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