"Ferry me across the water" [Sidney Homer]

"Ferry me across the water" [Sidney Homer]

First line of lyrics: Ferry me across the water

Part of: "Two Songs"

Homer, Sidney; music (American, 1864-1953)

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

1912 [copyright]

New York: G. Schirmer Inc.; Boston: The Boston Music Co.

genre: song|song cycle

solo: high voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: low voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Ferry me across the water'"

Place in the larger work: The second of two songs in the song cycle called "Two Songs" which includes 1. "April, April" (Sir William Watson); 2. "Ferry me across the water" (Christina Rossetti).

Composition history: "By permission of the publishers, The Macmillan Company"

Tempo markings: "Vivace"

Performance instructions: "(with spirit and humor)"

Dedication: "To my daughter Louise"

Notes: "High in A [flat]; Low in F"

Format 1: musical score

2 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4403

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Cataloguer: Harmony Kwan and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score for high voice: Record for "Ferry me across the water. High in A♭. (Two songs, [no. 2]). Words by Christina Rossetti. [Music by] Sidney Homer. Op. 23, no. 2." UR Research, University of Rochester, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/5526. Accessed 9 Jul 2020.

Opus: 23, number 2

Record: CRM-ferrymeacross-homer

File(s): CRM-ferrymeacross-homer.pdf

"Copyright, 1912, by G. Schirmer"

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