"Love Knows Not 'Mine' or 'Thine'" [Wayland Rogers]

"Love Knows Not 'Mine' or 'Thine'" [Wayland Rogers]

First line of lyrics: Love knows not 'mine' or 'thine'

Part of: "I-Thou"

Rogers, Wayland; music (American, born 1941)

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

2019 [copyright]

GIA Publications

genre: song|song cycle

quartet: SATB

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Monna Innominata"

Place in the larger work: The eighteenth song of eighteen in the song cycle called "I-Thou," which includes 1. "Encounter I" (Kazuaki Tanahashi); 2. "Lullaby" (Lucy Eddy); 3. "My Brother" (Marci Ridlon McGill); 4. "Father's Song" (Gregory Orr); 5. "Encounter II" (Kazuaki Tanahashi); 6. "Bunches of Grapes" (Walter de la Mare); 7. "there are so many tic toc clocks" (e.e. cummings); 8. "Lana Turner Has Collapsed" (Frank O’Hara); 9. "Encounter III" (Kazuaki Tanahashi); 10. "An Unfinished Duet" (Lucy Ann); 11. "The Pleasures of Friendship" (Stevie Smith); 12. "On Another's Woe" (William Blake); 13. "A Time to Talk" (Robert Frost); 14. "The Old young Man and the Young Old Man" (Wilfrid Wilson Gibson); 15. "Encounter IV" (Kazuaki Tanahashi); 16. "My True Love Hath My Heart" (Sir Philip Sydney); 17. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Anne Bradstreet); 18. "Love Knows Not 'Mine' or 'Thine'" (Christina Rossetti).

Notes about the text: "I have chosen only the last five lines of I Loved You First to set to music."

Composition history: "The setting is an excerpt from my song cycle, I-Thou, which was commissioned [...] by Fourth Coast Ensemble"

Tempo markings: quarter note = 78

Performance instructions: There is an extensive rehearsal guide on the third page of the score.

Performance history: The song cycle was "premiered in 2018 by Fourth Coast Ensemble in Chicago."

Notes: The setting can be purchased individually.

Format 1: musical score

12 pages; complete song cycle performance time 37 minutes

Other data reference(s): "I-THOU, a song cycle for four voices and piano." Sheet Music Plus, https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/i-thou-a-song-cycle-for-four-voices-and-piano-digital-sheet-music/21184659. Accessed 14 June 2022.
"Love Knows Not 'Mine' or 'Thine.'" GIA Publications, https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/love-knows-not-mine-or-thine-print-g9958. Accessed 14 June 2022.
"Works." Wayland Rogers, https://waylandrogers.net/works/. Accessed 14 June 2022.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Love Knows Not 'Mine' or 'Thine.'" GIA Publications, https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/love-knows-not-mine-or-thine-print-g9958. Accessed 14 June 2022.

Record: CRM-monnainnominata-rogers

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