"Summer is Ended" [Jean Coulthard]

"Summer is Ended" [Jean Coulthard]

First line of lyrics: Weep not for me when I am gone

Part of: "Three Songs for Soprano and Piano"

Coulthard, Jean; music (Canadian, 1908-2000)

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

1962, November [composition]; 1972 [copyright]

genre: song cycle|song

solo: soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: Canada

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "The Summer is Ended"

Place in the larger work: The second song of three in the song cycle called "Three Songs for Soprano and Piano" which includes 1. "The May Tree" (Alfred Noyes); 2. "Summer is Ended" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Dream Pedlary" (Thomas Lowell Beddoes).

Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the last stanza only.

Tempo markings: "Lento"

Dedication: "dedicated to Elizabeth Benson-Guy"

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 6-8)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4811

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

Other data reference(s): Record for "Jean Coulthard." Music Library, Canadian Music Centre,
collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?component=AAIL&record=205e1e2a-5214-4388-b2b5-55ee4446c131. Accessed 27 Feb. 2023.

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

Musical score: Canadian Music Centre, Toronto

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: Record for "Jean Coulthard." Canadian Music Centre, Toronto, https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?component=AAIL&record=205e1e2a-5214-4388-b2b5-55ee4446c131

Record: CRM-summerisended-coulthard

"© JEAN COULTHARD, 1972"

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