"Dream-Love" [Percy E. Fletcher]

"Dream-Love" [Percy E. Fletcher]

First line of lyrics: Young Love lies sleeping

Fletcher, Percy E. [Eastman]; music (English, 1879-1932)

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

1921 [copyright]

London: Novello and Company Limited; New York: The H. W. Gray Co., sole agent for the U.S.A.

genre: song|part song|choral music

chorus: SATB chorus

quartet: SATB

instrumentation: a cappella|piano (for rehearsal only)

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Dream-Love"

Notes about the text: This song is a setting of stanzas 1-2, 5, 7-8 of the poem "Dream-Love".

Tempo markings: quarter note = "about 72"

Performance instructions: "With gentle movement. | (Tenderly expressive.)"

Notes: This score was also published in The Musical Times vol. 62, no. 939 in May 1921 as an extra supplement.

Format 1: musical score

8 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4358

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: Laurel Richardson, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Novello's part-songs and madrigals for mixed voices [bound volume]. pp. 118-125. Royal Academy of Music Library, C1516. "C1516 - Novello's part-songs and madrigals for mixed voices." (pp. 118-125). Internet Archives, https://archive.org/details/RCM-C1516/page/n117/mode/2up. Accessed 18 Sept 2021. Accessed 4 Jun. 2021.

Record: CRM-dreamlove-fletcher

File(s): CRM-dreamlove-fletcher.pdf

"Copyright, 1921, by Novello and Company, Limited."

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