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"Come Back in Dreams" [Theo Marzials]

Title

"Come Back in Dreams" [Theo Marzials]
First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night

Creator

Marzials, Theo [Theophile Jules Henri]; music (English 1850-1920)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1886 [publication]; 1908 [publication]

Publisher

London, Milan, Naples, Florence, Rome, Paris: Tito di Gio, Ricordi [1886]; New York: G. Schirmer, Inc. [1908]

Subject

genre: song|art song (lied)
solo: voice
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: three flats
initial time signature: 9/8
other version 1 - solo: voice
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one flat
origin: United Kingdom
male composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
Tempo markings: "Allegretto"
Notes: "No. 1 in F. No. 2 in E flat." In 1908, it was published in Schirmer's "Modern song favorites, Vol. II: a collection of twenty-two favorite songs" for high voice and piano and an identical one for low voice and piano.

Format

Format 1: musical score
5 pages

Source

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4379; Ives DM83
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa
musical score in E flat: Baillieu Library, University of Melbourn

Identifier

Record: CRM-echo-marzials
File(s): CRM-echo-marzials.pdf

Rights

"Ricordi's Copyright"
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Files

Collection

Citation

Marzials, Theo [Theophile Jules Henri]; music (English 1850-1920) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Come Back in Dreams" [Theo Marzials],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2367.