untitled [setting of "Luscious and Sorrowful"] [Christine McCombe]
Title
untitled [setting of "Luscious and Sorrowful"] [Christine McCombe]
First line of lyrics: Beautiful, Tender, Wasting away for sorrow
Part of: "Halcyon"
Creator
McCombe, Christine; music (Australian)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
1994 [composition] [copyright]
Subject
genre: song|song cycle
solo: voice
instrumentation: guitar
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
origin: Australia
female composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "'Luscious and Sorrowful'"
Place in the larger work: The second song of three in the song cycle "Halcyon" which includes three settings of Rossetti poems: 1. "A Birthday"; 2. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 3. "Three Stages."
Tempo markings: "Espressivo, tenderly"; MM quarter note = 48-52
Performance instructions: The guitar is instructed to sound "luxuriant."
Format
Format 1: musical score
4 pages (pp. 4-7)
Source
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
musical score: Australian Music Centre Library, New South Wales
Identifier
Record: CRM-lusciousandsorrowful-mccombe
Rights
"copyright: Christine Anne McCombe 1994"
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Files
Collection
Citation
McCombe, Christine; music (Australian) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “untitled [setting of "Luscious and Sorrowful"] [Christine McCombe],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 13, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2327.
Item Relations
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: untitled [setting of "Three Stages"] [Christine McCombe] |
| Item: untitled [setting of "A Birthday"] [Christine McCombe] | is part of a larger work that also includes | This Item |