"Is the Moon Tired?" [Joe St.Johanser]

"Is the Moon Tired?" [Joe St.Johanser]

First line of lyrics: Is the moon tired?

Part of: "Two Lullabies of Christina Rossetti" or "Songs of Christina Rossetti: Two Lullabies for Voice and Viola" [title on cover]

St.Johanser, Joe; music (British, born 1941)

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

2010 [video recording]; 2011 [publication] [copyright]

Woking, Surrey: Robosoft Music Productions Limited

genre: art song (lied)|song cycle|song

solo: voice

instrumentation: viola

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Is the moon tired? she looks so pale'" |"'What do the stars do'"|"'Lullaby, oh lullaby!'"

Place in the larger work: The second 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 "'Is the moon tired? She looks so pale,'" the first stanza of "'What do the stars do'" and the entire text of "'Lullaby, oh lullaby!'"

Tempo markings: "Largo"; quarter note = 80

Recordings: St.Johanser, Joe. "Is the Moon Tired? for Soprano and Viola." Performance by Helen Semple, soprano and Suzanne Evans, viola. YouTube, uploaded 21 May 2010, https://youtu.be/df9Mb1oiAIA.

Format 1: musical score

2 page (pp, 5-6); complete song cycle performance time 6 minutes.

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

Opus: 23, number 2

Record: CRM-isthemoontired-stjohanser

File(s): CRM-isthemoontired-stjohanser.pdf

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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