"For Sweet Things Dying" [Robert H. Young]

"For Sweet Things Dying" [Robert H. Young]

First line of lyrics: Why were you born when the snow was falling?

Part of: "Contrasts"

Young, Robert H.; music (American, 1923-2011)

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

1999 [publication]

Fred Bock Music Company; Milwaukee: Gentry Publications

genre: choral music|song|song cycle

chorus: SATB voices with divisi

instrumentation: a cappella

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Dirge" ("Why were you born when the snow was falling?")

Place in the larger work: The first song of two in the song cycle called "Contrasts," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include "For Sweet Things Dying" and "A Birthday"

Performance history: "Premiered by the Santa Rosa High School Chamber Singers at the recent [1999?] ACDA National Convention in Chicago" ("Contrasts"). On 10 November 2017 in Great Reading Room, Seerley Hall, University of Northern Iowa: "Contrasts: Differences and Similarities in Choral Settings of Christina Rossetti’s Poetry" prepared by Coren Hucke in partial fulfillment of the Honors Thesis requirement at the University of Northern Iowa, performance by Taylor Else, Lauren Soukup, Dawn Vickers (sopranos); Annika Andrews, Aja Baskerville, Mallory Vallentine (altos); Aaron DeSantiago, Aricson Knoblock, Jonathan Norris (tenors); Joel Andrews, Andy Cutler, Will Lubaroff (basses) (Hucke, concert programme).

Format 1: musical score

7 pages

Other data reference(s): "Contrasts." Hal Leonard, https://www.halleonard.com/product/8739015/contrasts?subsiteid=5&. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.
Hucke, Coren. "Contrasts": Differences and similarities in choral settings of Christina Rossetti's poems. 2017, pp. 8-9 and concert programme. University of Northern Iowa, University Honours Theses, https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/299/

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-dirge-young

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