"An End" [R.A. Moulds]

"An End" [R.A. Moulds]

First line of lyrics: Love, strong as death

Moulds, R.A. [Rod]; music (American, born 1958)

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

1992 [composition] [copyright]

genre: art song (lied)|song

solo: mezzo-soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 12/8

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "An End"

Composition history: "June 13, 1992—Glen Burnie, MD [...] This setting of a poem by Christina Rossetti for voice and piano came after a small gap in compositional activity." "[T]his is number 69 in my list, and I am now up to number 104, so this is an earlier work that, in the best of my memory, wrote simply because I was moved by the poem. I had not seen any other settings of this poem, so I am interested that it has at least three entries in the database already" (Moulds)

Tempo markings: "Melancolico"; dotted quarter note = c. 52

Performance instructions: "The original setting is for mezzo-soprano voice, but a version for higher voice is also available."

Performance history: "first performed March 10, 2004, by Sabine Federspiel and Paul Koutnik, in Brno, Czech Republic" (Moulds).

Dedication: "for Patric"

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

Other data reference(s): Moulds, R.A. "Re: "Christina Rossetti in Music" inquiry." Received by Mary Arseneau, 8 November 2020.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: R.A. Moulds

Opus: 69

Record: CRM-end-moulds

File(s): CRM-end-moulds.pdf

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