"Holy Innocents" [Robert Coningsby Clarke]

"Holy Innocents" [Robert Coningsby Clarke]

Part of: "Song-Cameos"

Clarke, Robert Coningsby; music (British, 1879-1934)

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

1903 [publication]

London: C. Woolhouse

genre: song|song cycle

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Holy Innocents" ("Sleep, little Baby, sleep")

Place in the larger work: The first song of six in the song cycle called "Song-Cameos," which includes 1. "Holy Innocents" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Love's Constancy"; 3. "Love's Extravagance"; 4. "Minnie and Winnie" (Lord Tennyson); 5. "Dainty little Maiden" (Lord Tennyson); 6. "Romance" (R.L. Stevenson).

Format 1: musical score

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4460

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

Other data reference(s): "Song-Cameos." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/497450818. Accessed 27 June 2022.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-holyinnocents-clarke

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