"Come Back to Me in Dreams" [Mark Burrows]

"Come Back to Me in Dreams" [Mark Burrows]

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

Burrows, Mark; music (American, born 1971)

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

2017 [copyright]

Shawnee Press

genre: choral music|song

chorus: SATB voices with divisi

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Composition history: In the front matter of the score, the composer writes about Christina Rossetti and the need to create beauty: "One of the best reasons to sing, paint, dance, write poetry - "to make art" - is to help us find beauty and wholeness when life hands us more than we think we can handle. Christina Rossetti has done just that through her haunting, poignant poem 'Echo'. [...] There is a sense of melancholy and longing for something that can never come back. Yet through that longing, she has written something truly heartfelt, beautiful and relatable."

Tempo markings: "slowly, pensive"

Recordings: "Come Back to Me in Dreams." J.W. Pepper & Sons, https://www.jwpepper.com/Come-Back-to-Me-in-Dreams/10841976.item#/submit. Accessed 15 May 2020. Same recording with score: "Come Back to Me in Dreams (SATB Choir) - by Mark Burrows," YouTube, uploaded by Hal Leonard Choral, 5 Mar. 2018, https://youtu.be/ZXxzyAJBubs

Format 1: musical score

14 pages; performance time ca. 4 minutes and 10 seconds

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Come Back to Me in Dreams." J.W. Pepper & Sons, https://www.jwpepper.com/Come-Back-to-Me-in-Dreams/10841976.item#/submit. Accessed 15 May 2020.

Record: CRM-echo-burrows

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