"Hope" [John Ireland]
Title
"Hope" [John Ireland]
First line of lyrics: I dug and dug amongst the snow
Part of: "Mother and Child"
Creator
Ireland, John [Nicholson]; music (English, 1879-1962)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
1918 [composition] [copyright]
Publisher
London: Winthrop Rogers; New York: C. Schirmer; Boston: Boston Music
Subject
genre: children's music|song|song cycle
solo: medium voice
chorus: children's unison chorus
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
initial time signature: 6/8
origin: United Kingdom
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "'I dug and dug amongst the snow'"
Place in the larger work: The third song of eight in a song cycle called "Mother and Child," settings of Christina Rossetti nursery rhymes from "Sing Song". The songs include 1. "New Born"; 2. "The Only Child"; 3. "Hope"; 4. "Skylark and Nightingale"; 5. "The Blind Boy"; 6. "Baby"; 7. "Death-Parting"; 8. "The Garland".
Tempo markings: "Allegretto"; dotted quarter note = 55
Recordings: "Mother and Child." Songs, John Ireland. Performance by Alfreda Hodgson, contralto, Alan Rowlands, piano, recorded in association with the John Ireland Trust, vol. 3, Lyrita, 1975-1979. LP.
Dedication: "To my sister."
Format
Format 1: musical score
2 pages (pp. 12-13); performance time 57 seconds
Source
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM 230; Gooch and Thatcher 4477
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
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): Craggs, Stewart R. John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography. 2nd edition, Ashgate, 2007, p. 60.
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: "Mother and Child." IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/wiki/Mother_and_Child_(Ireland,_John)#IMSLP285578. Accessed 3 Jan. 2017.
Identifier
Record: CRM-iduganddug-ireland
File(s): CRM-iduganddug-ireland.pdf
Rights
"Copyright 1918, by Winthrop Rogers Ltd."; John Ireland Trust
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Files
Collection
Citation
Ireland, John [Nicholson]; music (English, 1879-1962) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Hope" [John Ireland],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 15, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2803.
Item Relations
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Skylark and Nightingale" [John Ireland] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "The Blind Boy" [John Ireland] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Baby" [John Ireland] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Death-Parting" [John Ireland] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "The Garland" [John Garland] |
| Item: "Newborn" [John Ireland] | is part of a larger work that also includes | This Item |
| Item: "The Only Child" [John Ireland] | is part of a larger work that also includes | This Item |