"Winter Rain" [Gordon Jacob]

"Winter Rain" [Gordon Jacob]

First line of lyrics: Every valley drinks

Part of: "A Goodly Heritage"

Jacob, Gordon; music (English, 1895-1984)

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

1950 [publication] [copyright]

London: Joseph Williams Limited; New York: Mills Music Inc.

genre: song cycle|cantata|song

chorus: women's SSA chorus

instrumentation: piano|string orchestra

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Winter Rain"

Place in the larger work: The third song of twelve in the song cycle called "A Goodly Heritage," which includes 1. "Under the Greenwood tree" (William Shakespeare); 2. "The Cuckoo" (John Bunyan); 3. "Winter Rain" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "The rewards of farming" (Anonymous); 5. "The Grasshopper" (Richard Lovelace); 6. "Rain after drought" (Sidney Gray); 7. "Autumn" (Canon Dixon); 8. "When Icicles hang by the wall" (William Shakespeare); 9. "To meadows" (Robert Herrick); 10. "The Echoing Green" (William Blake); 11. "Evening" (Percy Bysshe Shelley); 12. "Pleasure it is" (William Cornish)

Tempo markings: "Poco adagio"; quarter note = 52

Performance instructions: The title page includes the statement "Twelve Songs of the Countryside for Women's voices with accompaniment of String Orchestra and Pianoforte." "N.B. When the work is performed with pianoforte accompaniment the Introduction [of 'A Goodly Heritage'] may be omitted if desired"

Dedication: "For the Womens' Choirs of Surrey"

Format 1: musical score

8 pages (pp. 17-23 in score with piano accompaniment); complete song cycle performance time 30 minutes

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4897

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

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: University of Ottawa Library, Ottawa

Record: CRM-winterrain-jacob

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