"Promises Like Piecrust" [Gordon Binkerd]

"Promises Like Piecrust" [Gordon Binkerd]

Binkerd, Gordon; music (American, 1916-2003)

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

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; text (English, 1828-1882)

1976 [composition]

genre: song

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: a cappella

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Promises like Piecrust"

Work contains texts by multiple authors

Notes about the text: "This work has a double text; the women of the chorus sing a setting of Christina Rossetti's 'Promises like Pie-Crust,' while the men of the chorus sing a setting of D. G. Rossetti's 'Severed Selves'" (Gooch and Thatcher 4690).

Notes: The score, which we have not located, is a manuscript that was intended to be published Boosey & Hawkes (Gooch and Thatcher 4690).

Format 1: musical score

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4690

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

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-promiseslike-binkerd

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