"Who Has Seen the Wind" [Jason A. Heald]

"Who Has Seen the Wind" [Jason A. Heald]

First line of lyrics: Who has seen the wind?

Part of: "Five Settings by Christina Rossetti"

Heald, Jason A.; music (American, born 1958)

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

2009 [copyright]

Oakland: Call of the Wild Publishing, Jason A. Heald

genre: song|song cycle|art song (lied)

solo: mezzo-soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three sharps

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"|"May" ("I cannot tell you how it was")

Place in the larger work: The first song of five in a song cycle called "Five Settings by Christina Rossetti," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Who has seen the wind"; 2. "Sleeping at last"; 3. "When I am dead, my dearest"; 4. "A better resurrection"; 5. "A daughter of eve".

Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts

Notes about the text: This song includes in their entirety, the poems "'Who has seen the wind?'" followed by "May" ("I cannot tell you how it was") and ends with a repeat of "'Who has seen the wind?'". In line 3 of the poem "May", the word "breezy" is replaced by "sunny" in the song.

Tempo markings: "Allegretto"

Recordings: "Five Settings by Christina Rossetti." Performance by Juth Ginelle Heald. YouTube, uploaded by Call of the Wild, 7 May 2020, youtu.be/KLwW16BiiC0. J. W. Pepper, www.jwpepper.com/Five-Settings-by-Christina-Rossetti/11208247.item#/submit. Accessed 6 Nov. 2021. [Songs are performed in order 1, 3, 2, 5, 4]

Format 1: musical score

5 pages (pp. 4-8); complete song cycle performance time 12 minutes and 24 seconds

Cataloguer: Benzir Harold Dmello and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Five Settings by Christina Rossetti." J. W. Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/Five-Settings-by-Christina-Rossetti/11208247.item#/submit. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021.

Record: CRM-whohasseen-heald

"© 2009"

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