"The Lowest Place" [Derick Ashley]

"The Lowest Place" [Derick Ashley]

First line of lyrics: Give me the lowest place

Ashley, Sydney Derick Morton; music (English, 1901-1976)

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

1930 [copyright] [publication]

London: Novello & Company, Limited

genre: song|sacred music

solo: contralto|low voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 7/8

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "The Lowest Place"

Tempo markings: "Lento"; eighth note = 96

Notes: Part of a collection called "Four sacred songs," which include: "A hope" (C. Kingsley);
"Mother to babe" (G. Meredith); "The call" (G. Herbert); "The lowest place" (C. Rossetti).

Format 1: musical score

2 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4591

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Other data reference(s): "Four sacred songs : for contralto." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3162809. Accessed 29 March 2021.
"Ashley, Derick." Composers Classical Music, http://composers-classical-music.com/a/AshleyDerick.htm. Accessed 4 Oct. 2021.
Advertisement for "Novello's Editions: A Selected List of Sacred Songs." The Musical Times, vol. 72, no. 1057, 1 Mar. 1931, p. 285. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/914903 . Accessed 4 Oct. 2021.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Four Sacred Songs, Novello & Company, 1930, pp. 4-5. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Record: CRM-lowestplace-ashley

"Copyright, 1930, by Novello & Company, Limited"

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