Christina Rossetti In Music

Christina Rossetti in Music Project

"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.
The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.

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]