"Where Sunless Rivers Weep" [Barbara Arens]

"Where Sunless Rivers Weep" [Barbara Arens]

First line of lyrics: Where sunless rivers weep

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

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 2/2

origin: Germany

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Dream-Land"

Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the first three stanzas of the poem only.

Tempo markings: half note = c. 60

Performance instructions: "Flowingly". 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." For the piano part in the score that appears in the publication "Golden Reflections", a note is included at the bottom of the first page that reads: "Note: If the singer is confident, the left hand of the piano part can be entirely omitted."

Recordings: "Where Sunless Rivers Weep - Barbara Arens, piano." YouTube, uploaded by Barbara Arens, 17 Jan. 2017, https://youtu.be/PesucCFauwo. Accessed 6 Feb. 2023.

Notes: Published by Barbara Arens in her collection called "Golden Reflections: Fifteen Songs" (2020).

Format 1: musical score

3 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: Marco Buttice and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Where Sunless Rivers Weep." Golden Reflections, pp. 22-24. J.W. Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/Golden-Reflections/11331822.item#/submit. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.

Record: CRM-dreamland-arens

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

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