"Young Love Lies Sleeping" [Arthur Somervell]

"Young Love Lies Sleeping" [Arthur Somervell]

First line of lyrics: Young Love lies sleeping

Part of: "Love in Spring-time"

Somervell, Arthur; music (English, 1863-1894)

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

1901, 1929 [copyright] [publication]

London, New York: Boosey & Co. Ltd.

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

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 3/8

other version 1 - solo: voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: two flats

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Dream-Love"

Place in the larger work: The third song of seven in the song cycle called "Love in spring-time," (1901) which includes 1. "I cannot tell what you say" (Charles Kingsley); 2. "Dainty little maiden" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson); 3. "Young love lies sleeping" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Underneath the growing grass" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "O what comes over the sea" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "The night-bird" (Charles Kingsley); 7. "Spring is here" (E.S.).

Composition history: "Printed by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co." (1901)

Tempo markings: "Andante sostenuto"

Notes: This setting was initially published in 1901 as part of a song cycle. This 1929 score contains "Young Love lies sleeping" as a standalone song in a new key. "No. 1 in A [flat]." "No. 2 in B [flat]."

Format 1: musical score

5 pages (pp. 13-17)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4359

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

Other data reference(s): Record for "Love in spring-time : cycle of seven songs." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/title/18187145. Accessed 23 July 2020.
Record for "Young love lies sleeping : song from the cycle Love in spring-time." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/title/440116620. Accessed 23 July 2020.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Musical score (1901): Royal Academy of Music Library, London

Musical score (1929): private collection

Record: CRM-dreamlove-somervell

File(s): CRM-dreamlove-somervell-1901-Bflat.pdf; CRM-dreamlove-somervell-1929-Aflat.pdf

"Copyright 1901 by Boosey & Co. | Copyright renewed 1929 in U.S.A. by Boosey & Co. Ltd. | The Public Performance of any parodied version of this composition is strictly prohibited. | All Rights Reserved"

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