"Sleeping at Last" [Jason A. Heald]
Title
"Sleeping at Last" [Jason A. Heald]
First line of lyrics: Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over
Part of: "Five Settings by Christina Rossetti"
Creator
Heald, Jason A.; music (American, born 1958)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
2009 July [composition]; 2009 [copyright]
Publisher
Oakland: Call of the Wild Publishing, Jason A. Heald
Subject
genre: song cycle|art song (lied)|song
solo: mezzo-soprano
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: six flats
initial time signature: 3/4
origin: United States
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "'Sleeping at last'"
Place in the larger work: The second 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".
Notes about the text: There are minimal changes to Rossetti's text in this piece. The first alteration is the word "of" in line three is omitted. The word "or" is changed to "and" in the poem's fifth line.
Tempo markings: "Andante"
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
Format 1: musical score
4 pages; complete song cycle performance time 12 minutes and 24 seconds
Source
Cataloguer: Matthew Foti 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 4 Nov. 2021.
Identifier
Record: CRM-sleepingatlast-heald
Rights
"© 2009"
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Files
Collection
Citation
Heald, Jason A.; music (American, born 1958) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894) , “"Sleeping at Last" [Jason A. Heald],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 13, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3363.
Item Relations
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "When I am dead, my dearest" [Jason A. Heald] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "A Better Resurrection" [Jason A. Heald] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "A Daughter of Eve" [Jason A. Heald] |
| Item: "Who Has Seen the Wind" [Jason A. Heald] | is part of a larger work that also includes | This Item |