"Entreaty" [Judith Lang Zaimont]

"Entreaty" [Judith Lang Zaimont]

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

Part of: "Greyed Sonnets"

Zaimont, Judith Lang; music (American, born 1945)

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

1975 [publication]

Subito Music Corporation

genre: song|song cycle|art song (lied)

solo: soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in a song cycle called "Greyed Sonnets" which includes 1. "Soliloquy" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 2. "Let it be forgotten" (Sara Teasdale); 3. "A Season's Song" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 4. "Love's Autumn" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 5. "Entreaty" (Christina Rossetti).

Notes about the text: In the lyrics, the phrase "to me" is added after "Come" at the beginning of the second line of the poem, and at the end of line 15 of the poem, the word "you" was added.

Tempo markings: "Slow"; quarter note = 60-72

Performance instructions: "pleading"

Performance history: "First Performance: CAMI Hall, NYC [New York City], November 1975" ("Vocal Music")

Recordings: "Greyed Sonnets." The Vocal-Chamber Art -- Music by Judith Lang Zaimont, performance by Elena Tyminski, soprano, Judith Lang Zaimont, piano, Leonarda, 1999.
"Entreaty." Vitality Began, performance by Patricia Stiles, mezzo-soprano, Graham Cox, piano, Cavalli Records, 2001.

Format 1: musical score

4 pages (pp. 13-16); performance time 3 minutes and 43 seconds; complete song cycle performance time 14 minutes

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

Other data reference(s): "Vocal Music." Judith Lang Zaimont Composer, http://jzaimont.com/works/vocal/vocal.html. Accessed 17 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Judith Lang Zaimont

Record: CRM-echo-zaimont

"© Judith Lang Zaimont 1975"

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