Christina Rossetti In Music

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"'Echo'" [Margaret Wegner]

Title

"'Echo'" [Margaret Wegner]
First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
Part of: "Three Rosetti Songs"

Creator

Wegener, Margaret; music (English, 1920-2020)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1994 [composition]; 1997 [publication] [copyright]

Publisher

Manchester: Da Capo Music Ltd.

Subject

genre: art song (lied)|song cycle|song
solo: soprano
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: four flats
initial time signature: 4/4
origin: United Kingdom
female composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in a song cycle called "Three Rosetti Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "When I Am Dead, My Dearest (Song)"; 2. "Remember"; 3. "'Echo'".
Composition history: "Three Rosetti Songs were composed in 1994"
Tempo markings: quarter note = 60
Performance instructions: "Dreamlike"
Performance history: "first sung at the Holbourne Museum, Bath, in September 1994 by Georgina Anne Colwell accompanied by Nigel Foster"

Format

Format 1: musical score
4 pages (pp. 17-10); song cycle performance time appox. 10 minutes

Source

Cataloguer: Laurel Richardson, University of Ottawa
Musical score: Northwestern University Library, Evanston

Identifier

Record: CRM-echo-wegener

Rights

"© 1997 Margaret Wegener, Llangollen, Wales | Da Capo Music Ltd. | Manchester, England"
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Citation

Wegener, Margaret; music (English, 1920-2020) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"'Echo'" [Margaret Wegner],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 23, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3385.

Item Relations

Item: "When I am Dead, My Dearest (Song)" [Margaret Wegener] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Remember" [Margaret Wegener] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item