untitled [setting of "'The summer nights are short'"] [G.W. Chadwick]

untitled [setting of "'The summer nights are short'"] [G.W. Chadwick]

First line of lyrics: The northern days are short

Part of: "Two Folk Songs"

Chadwick, G.W. [George Whitefield]; music (American, 1854-1931)

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

1892 [copyright]; 1920 [copyright]

Boston, New York: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co.

genre: folk|song|song cycle

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'The summer nights are short'"

Place in the larger work: The second song of two in the song cycle called "Two Folk Songs," which includes I. "O Love and Joy" (unknown); II. "'The summer nights are short'" (Christina Rossetti).

Notes about the text: In this setting, the words "northern days" replace Rossetti's phrase "summer nights" in line 1; "nights" replaces "days" in line 2; "the" replaces "lark after" in line 3; "pours" replaces "trills" in line 4; "southern nights" replace "summer days" in line 5; "when" replaces "where" and "days" replaces "nights" in line 6; "But sweet" replace "yet short" in line 7; and "pour" replaces "trill" in line 8.

Tempo markings: "Con moto"; quarter note = 80

Dedication: "To Mrs. G. H. Stoddard"

Format 1: musical score

2 pages (pp. 4-5)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4812; Ives DM113

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

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Cataloguer: Manoshi Kanta Sarkar and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/2_Folk_Songs_(Chadwick%2C_George_Whitefield). Accessed 27 January 2022.

Record: CRM-summernights-chadwick

File(s): CRM-summernights-chadwick.pdf

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