"Echo" [Ronald Ray Williams]

"Echo" [Ronald Ray Williams]

First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night

Part of: "Suite of Six Texts"

Williams, Ronald Ray; music (American, born 1929)

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

1963 [composition]; 1974 [publication]

genre: song|song cycle

solo: tenor

instrumentation: string quartet

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Place in the larger work: The fourth song of six in the song cycle called "Suite of Six Texts," which includes 1. "The Argument of His Book" (Robert Herrick); 2. "An Epitaph upon a Virgin" (Robert Herrick); 3. "Epigram" (Alexander Pope); 4. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Mercury's Song to Phaedra (Amphitryon)" (John Dryden); 6. "Music, When Soft Voices Die" (Percy Shelley).

Notes about the text: "Acknowledgement is gratefully made to Macmillan Services Limited, London, original publishers of the text."

Tempo markings: quarter note = c. 88

Format 1: musical score

5 pages (pp. 78-82)

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: York University Library, Toronto

Record: CRM-echo-williams

"© 1974 by Ronald Ray Williams. All rights reserved."

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