"Echo" [Sally Whitwell]

"Echo" [Sally Whitwell]

First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night

Whitwell, Sally; music (Australian, born 1974)

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

genre: song|choral music

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 5/4

origin: Australia

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"

Composition history: "I greatly enjoy working in community music. Really, I’m happy to work with musicians of any age or level of experience. Anyone. I’m just as happy to play in New York with Philip Glass as I am to play Mexican Woodpecker with a room full of eight year-olds (if you don’t know Mexican Woodpecker, that’s what the internet is for!). What really counts is commitment and enthusiasm. I worked for a while with a community choir here in Sydney, Polyphony. They have enthusiasm in buckets which, as a composer, I find very inspirational. I wrote this piece for them. It’s a bittersweet evocation to the memory of someone who has departed this world."

Tempo markings: quarter note = 56

Recordings: "Echo." Performance by Sally Whitwell, piano, VOX, choir, Elizabeth Scott, solo. 2015. Spotify, https://open.spotify.com/track/0E1WHv5dSJOx4CD6KqYCWv?si=50dbd50ed1974fb0.

Format 1: musical score

Other data reference(s): "Composer." Sally Whitwall, http://sillywhatwell.weebly.com/composer.html. Accessed 10 March 2022.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-echo-whitwell

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