"When Wind-Flowers Blossom on the Sea" [Sidney Homer]

"When Wind-Flowers Blossom on the Sea" [Sidney Homer]

First line of lyrics: "Oh tell me once and tell me twice"

Part of: "Three Songs"

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

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

1908 [copyright]

New York: G. Schirmer

genre: song|song cycle

solo: low voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 3/4

other version 1 - solo: high voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore'"

Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Three Songs" which includes: 1. "When Wind-Flowers Blossom on the Sea" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "The Sick Child" (Robert Louis Stevenson); 3. "The Pauper's Drive" (Thomas Noel).

Tempo markings: "Allegro molto"

Performance instructions: "with passion and varied expression. f"

Dedication: "To Mrs. Carl Stoeckel"

Notes: "High in A. Low in G"

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4675

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

Other data reference(s): Record for "Three songs with piano accompaniment, op. 18. 1, When windflowers blossom on the sea." Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, http://tulprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/17g37ic/TUL_VOYAGER850837. Accessed 10 Jul 2020.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score for high voice: New York Publish Library, New York.

Opus: 18, number 1

Record: CRM-onefootonsea-homer

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

"Copyright, 1908, by G. Schirmer"

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