"Echo" [Patrick Hawes]

"Echo" [Patrick Hawes]

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

Part of: "The Call"

Hawes, Patrick; music (English, born 1958)

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

1997 [composition]; 2016 [publication] [copyright]

Hawes Music

genre: song|song cycle

solo: soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: five flats

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: soprano

other version 1 - instrumentation: string quartet

other version 2 - solo: soprano

other version 2 - instrumentation: harp

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Place in the larger work: The eighth song of ten in the song cycle called "The Call" which includes 1. "The Call" (George Herbert); 2. "Autobiography"; 3. "St Michael and All Angels, Edenham"; 4. "Let a Florid Music Praise" (W.H. Auden); 5. "Remember" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "The Tyger"; 7. "Two Loves"; 8. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 9. "If I could tell you" (W.H. Auden); 10. "Who can deny?"

Tempo markings: "With slow pulsating rhythm"; quarter note = c. 72

Performance instructions: For soprano and piano or string quartet or harp. "Orchestral parts available on hire" ("Echo (from The Call)"

Notes: "The eighth piece from the song-cycle The Call written in Autumn 1997 in the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana and uses poems which seemed to echo the public’s need for answers to eternal questions. This piece for soprano and piano is a setting of the beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti describing the sadness and deep pain of the poet for a deceased lover."

Format 1: musical score

8 pages (soprano and piano score); performance time 4 minutes; complete song cycle performance time 40 minutes

Other data reference(s): "Echo (from The Call)." Hawes Music Publishing, https://www.hawesmusic.com/product/echo-vocal-score/. Accessed 23 Apr. 2020.
"Echo (from The Call)." Patrick Hawes Composer, https://www.patrickhawes.com/2017/10/05/echo-from-the-call/. Accessed 23 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Jazmine Clement and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-echo-hawes

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