"Weeping Willow" [Barbara Arens]

"Weeping Willow" [Barbara Arens]

First line of lyrics: O silvery weeping willow tree

Arens, Barbara; music (lives in Germany, born in Lebanon, 1960)

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

2017 [publication]; 2020 [publication]

Rickmansworth: Editions Musica Ferrum LTD; Barbara Arens

genre: song

solo: voice|spoken recitation

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 12/8

origin: Germany

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "In the Willow Shade"

Notes about the text: The song is a setting of stanzas 8 (ll. 29-32), 11-12 (ll. 41-48) of the poem, followed by the line "ling-ring in the sun", which borrows the last two words "lingering sun" of line 51 from stanza 13, a repeat of stanzas 8 (ll. 29-32), 11 (ll. 41-48) and ending with stanza 16 (ll. 61-64).

Tempo markings: dotted quarter note = c. 100

Performance instructions: "Flowing nervously." In the Notes for "All Beautiful & Splendid Things: 12 + 1 Piano Songs on Poems by Women", it states: "Music for piano solo, with words which may optionally be sung or read by the pianist."

Recordings: "Weeping Willow - Barbara Arens, piano." YouTube, uploaded by Barbara Arens, 13 Jan. 2017, https://youtu.be/aKV77odi5q4. Accessed 26 Oct. 2022.

Notes: First published by Editions Musica Ferrum in a collection called "All Beautiful & Splendid Things: 12+1 Piano Songs on Poems by Women" (2017), then by Barbara Arens in her collection called "Golden Reflections: Fifteen Songs" (2020).

Format 1: musical score

4 pages

Other data reference(s): "Golden Reflections." J.W. Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/Golden-Reflections/11331822.item#/submit. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
Record for "All Beautiful and Splendid Things: 12+1 songs for solo piano on poems by women." WorldCat, https://worldcat.org/en/title/1125070272. Accessed 26 Oct. 2022.

Cataloguer: Hann Scurlock, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Weeping Willow." Golden Reflections, pp. 10-11. J.W. Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/Golden-Reflections/11331822.item#/submit. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.

Record: CRM-inthewillowshade-arens

"© 2020 | The works in this book are the sole right of the composer, Barbara Arens" (Golden Reflections)

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