"What Would I Give" [Thomas Pasatieri]

"What Would I Give" [Thomas Pasatieri]

First line of lyrics: What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through

Part of: "A Rustling of Angels"

Pasatieri, Thomas; music (American, born 1945)

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

2003 [publication]

King of Prussia: Theodore Presser Company

genre: song|song cycle

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "What Would I Give?"

Place in the larger work: The third song of twelve songs in a song cycle called "The Rustling of Angels" which includes 1. "How Sweet the Answer" (Thomas Moore); 2. "I Saw" (Anonymous); 3. "What Would I Give" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Gather Ye Rosebuds" (Robert Herrick); 5. "At the Moated Grange" (William Shakespeare); 6. "Love's Philosophy" (P.B. Shelley); 7. "Green Grow the Rushes" (Robert Burns) 8. "Art" (Herman Melville); 9. "The Revelation" (Coventry Patmore); 10. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 11. "The Old Stoic" (Emily Bronte) 12. "Beneath the Cypress Shade" (Thomas Love Peacock).

Tempo markings: "Lento espressivo"

Recordings: Pasatieri, Thomas. "What Would I Give." Songbook, performance by Sheri Greenawald, soprano and Warren Jones, piano, Albany Records, 2007. YouTube, uploaded 21 Mar. 2015, provided by The Orchard Enterprises, https://youtu.be/bxAbMQdgeCM.

Dedication: "To Janice Townsend"

Format 1: musical score

2 pages (pp. 9-10); performance time approx. 3 minutes; complete song cycle performance duration 30 minutes.

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

Other data reference(s): "A Rustling of Angels." Sheet Music Plus, https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/a-rustling-of-angels-sheet-music/4823533. Accessed 17 Apr. 2020.
"Thomas Pasatieri Songbook." Chandos Records, https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/TR%200901. Accessed 17 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York.

Record: CRM-whatwouldigive-pasatieri

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