"Sleeping at Last" [Brian Elias]

"Sleeping at Last" [Brian Elias]

First line of lyrics: Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over

Part of: "Three Songs"

Elias, Brian; music (English, born in India 1948)

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

2003 [composition] [copyright]

London: Chester Music

genre: song|song cycle

solo: alto

instrumentation: harp

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 2/4

other version 1 - solo: alto

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Sleeping at last'"

Place in the larger work: The third song of three in the song cycle called "Three Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Come, Blessed Sleep"; 2. "Dream of You"; 3. "Sleeping at Last."

Composition history: "These three poems by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) were written several years apart, yet they seem to express similar emotions and concerns. [...] I had wanted to write a work for voice and harp for some time, and found the dark and secret world of these poems ideally suited to this sonority."

Tempo markings: eighth note = ca.52

Performance history: "First performed by Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Helen Tunstall at the Purcell Room, London on 30th January 2004 as part of a portrait concert of Brian Elias given by Endymion."

Format 1: musical score

5 pages (pp. 20-24); complete song cycle performance time 15 minutes

Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2331417. Accessed 6 October 2020.

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Three Songs." Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2331417. Accessed 6 October 2020.

Record: CRM-sleepingatlast-elias

"Copyright 2003 Chester Music Ltd."

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