"Summer" [Ernest Farrar]

"Summer" [Ernest Farrar]

First line of lyrics: Winter is cold-hearted

Farrar, Ernest Bristow; music (English, 1885-1918)

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

1927 [publication]

London: Oxford University Press

genre: choral music|song|children's music

chorus: SSC chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Summer"

Notes about the text: The song is a setting of stanzas 1, 2, and 4 only, omitting the third.

Tempo markings: "Allegretto con moto"

Performance instructions: For "Female Voices." Gooch and Thatcher also suggests for "boys' voices" and by extension for children.

Format 1: musical score

Contains tonic sol-fa notation

12 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4607

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Cataloguer: Monica Cote Macson and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: The British Library, London

Record: CRM-summer-farrar

File(s): CRM-summer-farrar.pdf

"Copyright in U.S.A. and all countries, 1927, by the Oxford University Press, London."

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