"Echoes" [Virginia Gabriel]

"Echoes" [Virginia Gabriel]

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

Gabriel, Mary Ann Virginia; music (English, 1825-1877)

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

1868 [publication]

London: Ashdown & Parry, Hanover Square

genre: song|art song (lied)

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: two sharps

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Notes about the text: This song is a setting of stanzas 1 and 3 only.

Composition history: "CGR was aware of the setting as early as December 1864: "I hear that my "Echo" is likely to be published, set to music by a Miss Gabriel" (Letters 1:206, 222). In 1868, WMR noted that it had been published and dedicated to him" (Ives DM9).

Dedication: "To William Michael Rossetti."

Notes: "The British Library holds an undated separate publication by Ashdown & Parry (publishers of Hanover Square): depository copy dated 25 Nov. 1868, plate number A & P No. 5538, dual key signature for F and D (one flat and two sharps)" (Ives DM9)

Format 1: musical score

6 pages

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM9

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa

musical score: Hanover Square; a Magazine of Pianoforte and Vocal Music, edited by Lindsay Sloper, vol. 1, no. 6, April 1868, pp. 160-165. Internet Archives, https://archive.org/embed/hanoversquaremag01slop. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

Record: CRM-echo-gabriel

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

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