"None Other Lamb" [Joseph Roff]

"None Other Lamb" [Joseph Roff]

First line of lyrics: None other Lamb, none other Name

Roff, Joseph; music (American, 1910-1993)

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

1954 [copyright]

East Orange: Canyon Press. Inc.

genre: song|choral music|sacred music

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: organ (for rehearsal only)|piano (for rehearsal only)|a cappella

initial sharps/flats: four sharps

initial time signature: 3/2

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'None other Lamb, none other Name'"

Notes about the text: In the song, "Amen" is added at the end of the poem.

Tempo markings: “Andante moderato”; half-note = 60

Performance history: On Good Friday, 6 April 2007, the Sanctuary Choir of Auburn First Baptist Church, Auburn, Alabama, presented "Music of the Cross, a Tenebrae Service."

Recordings: "None Other Lamb." Music of the Cross, performance by the Sanctuary Choir of Auburn First Baptist Church, Auburn, Alabama, 6 Apr. 2007. "Music of the Cross." Auburn First Baptist Church, posted by Dale Peterson, 6 Apr. 2007, https://www.auburnfbc.org/2007/04/06/music-of-the-cross-2/.
"None Other Lamb." Silo Sessions: Songs of Prayer and Praise, performance by Coretta Warren, Dorie Rhodes, Jennifer Maendel, Marion Robertshaw, Yolanda Wegner, Heidi Loewenthal, Helen Comer, and Alison Maendel, recorded in an old silo, Fox Hill Bruderhof. YouTube, uploaded by Bruderhof Music, 15 June 2021, https://youtu.be/wOFQi1eKkio.

Dedication: “To Ernest Seitz”

Notes: "Published in the hymnal "Songs of Light", no. 86

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4660

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

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

Cataloguer: Benzir Harold Dmello, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth

Record: CRM-noneotherlamb-roff

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