"Come to Me, My Love" [Trevor Maloney]

"Come to Me, My Love" [Trevor Maloney]

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

Maloney, Trevor; music (American, born 1992)

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

2016 [copyright]

Walton Music Corporation

genre: choral music|song

chorus: SATB voices with divisi

instrumentation: piano|clarinet

initial sharps/flats: five sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Composition history: "Winner of the 2010 Florida Vocal Association Composition Competition with unending thanks to the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Singers, Arlene Graham Sparks, director." But this song was first intended to be ugly as a joke to a friend who asked the composer to write a song for him. In the front matter of the score, the composer explained that he employed the use of major seventh intervals in this pursuit. "However, once I added the major third and perfect fifth, and added a parallel progression, I realized that I had created something rather interesting. After discovering the beauty of these major seventh chords, I eagerly sought to create a song around it. Fortunately, I stumbled upon Christina Rossetti's hauntingly beautiful poem 'Echo', and after a few months I finished one of my first original compositions for choir." (Trevor Maloney, in score front matter)

Tempo markings: "Freely"

Recordings: "Come to Me, My Love." Performance by Dreyfoos School of the Arts Singers, Arlene Graham Sparks, conductor, J.W. Pepper & Sons, https://www.jwpepper.com/Come-to-Me%2C-My-Love/10593282.item#/submit. Accessed 15 May 2020.

Format 1: musical score

13 pages; performance time approx. 6 minutes

Other data reference(s): "Come to Me, My Love." Walton Music, GIA Publications Inc., https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/come-to-me-my-love-print-wlg154. Accessed 15 May 2020.

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Come to Me, My Love." J.W. Pepper & Sons, https://www.jwpepper.com/Come-to-Me%2C-My-Love/10593282.item#/submit. Accessed 15 May 2020.

Record: CRM-echo-maloney

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