"Song" [Matthew Brown]

"Song" [Matthew Brown]

First line of lyrics: She sat and sang I

Part of: "The Speaking Silence"

Brown, Matthew; music (American, active 2005)

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

2005 [composition]

genre: song cycle|song

solo: soprano

instrumentation: guitar quartet

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("She sat and sang alway")

Place in the larger work: The first song of four in the song cycle called "The Speaking Silence," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Mirage"; 2. "Remember"; 3. "Song"; 4. "Echo".

Notes about the text: In this song, the word "alway" found in the Rossetti poem is replaced by "I".

Performance history: Brown, Matthew. “Matthew Brown--The Speaking Silence--III. Song.” YouTube, uploaded by rmbuscedu, Matthew Brown Music, 14 May 2007, https://youtu.be/aVsBOvXEls8

Recordings: Brown, Matthew. "The Speaking Silence: III. Song." SoundCloud, uploaded in 2015, https://soundcloud.com/matthewbrown/the-speaking-silence-iii-song.

Format 1: musical score

37 pages; performance time 20 minutes [song cycle]

Format 2: sound recording

performance time 4 minutes and 17 seconds

Other data reference(s): "The Speaking Silence." Matthew Brown Composer, https://sites.google.com/mattbrowncomposer.com/home/vocal-music/the-speaking-silence. Accessed 25 Apr. 2020.
Record for “The speaking silence : four poems of Christina Rossetti for soprano and guitar quartet” WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/993498616. Accessed 11 Apr. 2018

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songshesat-brown

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