"Songs of Love and Longing" [Holly Harris]

"Songs of Love and Longing" [Holly Harris]

First line of lyrics: You are so beautiful

Harris, Holly; music (Canadian, active since 1999)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina (English, 1830-1894)

Harris, Holly; adapted text (Canadian). Arnold, Matthew; text (English, 1822-1888). Anonymous; text (Japanese).

1999 April [composition]

genre: song|choral music

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: Canada

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Mirage"|"Echo"|"Remember"|"A Birthday"|"Monna Innominata"

Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts

Work contains texts by multiple authors

Notes about the text: The setting includes adaptations of the following texts: "The Songs of Solomon" (Chapters 1 and 2); "Monna Innominata (titled "The First Day" in Harris' work)," "Remember," "Mirage," "Echo," "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); "Longing" (Matthew Arnold); "Lady Heguri" (Anonymous, Japenese). Harris sets and significantly adapts the second sonnet in "Monna Innominata" (pp. 3-5), the first stanza of "A Birthday (pp. 7-14), and only a few lines from "Echo" (pp. 15-21), "Mirage" (pp. 17-18), and "Remember" (pp. 19-20). From "Echo" Harris adapts the lines "Come to me in the silence of the night" and "Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live." From "Mirage" she adapts the lines "The hope I dreamed of was a dream, / Was but a dream." From "Remember" she adapts the first line, "Remember me when I am gone away." These lines are adapted, repeated, and interwoven among each other by the composer.

Composition history: "Commissioned by The Winnipeg Singers with assistance from the Manitoba Arts Council"

Tempo markings: "Expressively"; quarter note = 112

Dedication: "For the Winnipeg Singers"

Format 1: musical score

22 pages

Cataloguer: Arianne Zamin, Sarah Pennington, Katherine Rainville and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg

Record: CRM-monnainnominata-harris

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