"When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [George Rochberg]

"When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [George Rochberg]

First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest

Part of: "Seven Early Love Songs"

Rochberg, George; music (American, 1918-2005)

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

1992 [copyright] [publication]

Bryn Mawr: Theodore Presser Company

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

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 3/2 6/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Place in the larger work: The second song of seven in the song cycle called "Seven Early Love Songs," which includes 1. "Tell Me Why the Roses Are So Pale?" (Heinrich Heine, translated by Francesca Rochberg-Halton); 2. "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Girl Whose Mouth Is Read and Laughing" (Heinrich Heine, translated by Louis Untermeyer); 4. You Are Like a Flower" (Heinrich Heine, translated by Francesca Rochberg-Halton); 5. Night Song at Almafi" (Sara Teasdale); 6. "Sweetest Love" (Arnold Stein); 7. "There Be None of Beauty's Daughters" (Lord Byron).

Tempo markings: "Andante affetuoso"

Dedication: "To Mims on her seventieth"

Notes: E flat major, medium High voice (Carman, 2169b)

Format 1: musical score

4 pages (pp. 6-9); complete song cycle performance time 30 minutes

Other data reference(s): Carman, Judith E. et al. "Seven Early Love Songs." Art Song in the United States, 1759-2011: An Annotated Bibliography, 4th edition, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013, p. 372, no. 2169.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: New York Public Library

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-rochberg

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