"Who Has Seen the Wind?" [Joe St.Johanser]
Title
"Who Has Seen the Wind?" [Joe St.Johanser]
First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?
Part of: "Two Lullabies of Christina Rossetti" or "Songs of Christina Rossetti: Two Lullabies for Voice and Viola" [title on cover]
Creator
St.Johanser, Joe; music (British, born 1941)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
2010 [video recording]; 2011 [publication] [copyright]
Publisher
Woking, Surrey: Robosoft Music Productions Limited
Subject
genre: art song (lied)|song cycle|song
solo: voice
instrumentation: viola
initial sharps/flats: two sharps
initial time signature: 6/8
other version 1 - solo: voice
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
origin: United Kingdom
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"|"'I have a little husband'"
Place in the larger work: The first song of two in a song cycle called "2 Lullabies of Christina Rossetti", settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Who has seen the wind?"; 2. "Is the moon tired?"
Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the entire text of "'Who has seen the wind?'" followed by the entire text of "'I have a little husband.'"
Tempo markings: "Andante"; dotted quarter note = 60
Recordings: St.Johanser, Joe. "Who has seen the wind? A song for soprano and viola to a poem of Christina Rossetti." Performance by Helen Semple, soprano and Suzanne Evans, viola. YouTube, uploaded 25 May 2010, https://youtu.be/1NSQuk6xej0.
Format
Format 1: musical score
2 pages (pp. 3-4); complete song cycle performance time 6 minutes
Source
Other data reference(s): "Songs and Chamber Works." Joe St.Johanser, http://www.joestjohanser.co.uk/newsong.htm. Accessed 18 Jan 2017.
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score with viola: Joe St.Johanser
Identifier
Opus: 23, number 1
Record: CRM-whohasseen-stjohanser
File(s): CRM-whohasseen-stjohanser.pdf
Rights
Copyright © Robosoft Music 2011. All rights reserved. This score appears on this website by kind permission of composer Joe. St.Johanser.
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Files
Collection
Citation
St.Johanser, Joe; music (British, born 1941) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Who Has Seen the Wind?" [Joe St.Johanser],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 13, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2600.
Item Relations
This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Is the Moon Tired?" [Joe St.Johanser] |