"A Song of Flight" [Edward Elgar]

"A Song of Flight" [Edward Elgar]

First line of lyrics: While we slumber and sleep

Elgar, Edward; music (British, 1857-1934)

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

1900 [publication] [copyright]

London, New York: Boosey & Co

genre: art song (lied)|song

solo: bass-baritone

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Song of Flight"

Composition history: "By permission of Messrs. Macmillian & Co Ltd."

Tempo markings: "Moderato e serioso"

Performance history: Debut performance: 1900/III/2; London; St. James's Hall; Harry Plunket Greene, baritone; performed following Elgar's song "After" (an adaptation of a Philip Bourke Marston poem) (Kennedy 342).

Recordings: "A Song of Flight, Op. 21." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Konrad Jarnot, baritone, Reinild Mees, piano. 2010. Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano Vol. 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wp639a8cE
"A Song of Flight, Op. 31, No. 2." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Benjamin Luxon, baritone, David Willison, piano. 2013. Elgar & Delius: Songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWEB6fVzII

Notes: This song was published with and often performed following "After" (Elgar's setting of a Phillip Bourke Marston poem) as the second of a pair of songs (Op. 31, no. 1 and 2).

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/

Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. Portrait of Elgar. Clarendon Press, 1987.

Cataloguer: Moira Duncan and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/2_Songs%2C_Op.31_(Elgar%2C_Edward). Accessed 1 June 2021.

Opus: 31, number 2

Record: CRM-songofflight-elgar

File(s): CRM-songofflight-elgar.pdf

"This song may be sung in public without fee or license. The public performance of any parodied version, however, is strictly prohibited." "Copyright, 1900, Boosey & Co., Ltd."

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