"Echo" [Connor Koppin]

"Echo" [Connor Koppin]

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

Koppin, Connor J.; music (American, born 1991)

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

2017 [composition]; 2018 [publication] [copyright]

Galaxy Music Corporation, Inc, ECS Publishing

genre: choral music|song

chorus: SATB voices with divisi

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: five flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Notes about the text: The composer removed text from the poem, most significantly in the second stanza: "too sweet, too bitter sweet" from line 1 and replacing the word "awakening" with "waking" in line 2; in the third stanza: "tho' cold in death" from line 2 and "my love, how long ago" from the last line.

Tempo markings: "A temp"; quarter note = 65

Recordings: "Echo - Connor Koppin - Scrolling Score." YouTube, uploaded by Galaxy Music, 23 Apr. 2018, https://youtu.be/bfT7l704Ci4.

Dedication: "Written for the Valley High School A Cappella Choir, In honor of the wonderful, Susan Ihnen's retirement from Valley High School," West Des Moines, Iowa.

Notes: "The Christina Rossetti text beautifully personifies the concept of memory, sometimes coming back to you in dreams. Gilded with a sonorous piano accompaniment, this is a piece that will be deeply appreciated by any students of music, whether they be advanced high school singers or a group of professionals."

Format 1: musical score

13 pages; performance time 5 minutes 30 seconds

Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Echo." J.W. Pepper & Son, https://www.jwpepper.com/Echo/10881484.item#/submit. Accessed 15 May 2020.

Record: CRM-echo-koppin

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