"Love Came Down" [Jennifer Higdon]

"Love Came Down" [Jennifer Higdon]

First line of lyrics: Love came down at Christmas

Higdon, Jennifer; music (American, born 1962)

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

2015 [publication] [copyright]

Philadelphia: Lawdon Press

genre: sacred music|Christmas music|choral music|song

solo: soprano

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: harp

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Christmastide"

Tempo markings: quarter note = 52-60

Performance history: Performed in 2016 on 3 December at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Apple Valley, 9 December at Roseville Lutheran Church, Roseville, and 10-11 December at Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, in a concert called, "Welcome Christmas", by the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Sophie Amelkin, soprano, Lynne Aspnes, harp, Philip Brunelle, conductor. (VocalEssence)

Format 1: musical score

16 pages

Other data reference(s): Record for "Love came down : for soprano, harp & SATB chorus." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944959582. Accessed 15 April 2019.
VocalEssence. "VocalEssence 48th Season Fall Concert Program Book." ISSUU, published 4 Oct. 2016, https://issuu.com/vocalessence/docs/vocalessence_fall_concert_program_b.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Texas at Austin Library, Austin

Record: CRM-christmastide-higdon

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