"Mirage" [Alfred Kunz]

"Mirage" [Alfred Kunz]

First line of lyrics: The hope I dreamed of was a dream, was but a dream

Part of: "Will You Come?"

Kunz, Alfred; music (Canadian, 1929-2019)

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

1966 [publication]

Waterloo: Waterloo University Press

genre: choral music|song cycle|song

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: Canada

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Mirage"

Place in the larger work: The fifth song of six in the song cycle called "Will You Come?," which includes 1. "Will you come" (Edward Thomas); 2. "Autumn dirge" (Paul Verlaine); 3. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Shelley); 4. "O world, O life, O time" (Percy Shelley); 5. "Mirage" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "I hear an army charging upon the land" (James Joyce).

Performance instructions: "Quietly animated"

Format 1: musical score

3 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4624

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): Record for “Choral cycle, Will you come, on various poets.” WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/221087827. Accessed 11 Apr. 2018.

Cataloguer: Arianne Zamin and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Laurier University, Waterloo

Record: CRM-mirage-kunz

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