Christina Rossetti In Music

Christina Rossetti in Music Project

"Sing No Sad Songs for Me" [Donato D. Fornuto]

Title

"Sing No Sad Songs for Me" [Donato D. Fornuto]
Part of: "Christina's Songs"

Creator

Fornuto, Donato D.; music (American, 1931-2022)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1982 [publication]

Publisher

Pines Lake: Filpat Publishing

Subject

genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle
solo: soprano
instrumentation: piano
initial time signature: 4/4
origin: United States
male composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in a song cycle called "Christina's Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Birthday Song"; 2. "Seasons"; 3. "Who Has Seen the Wind?"; 4. "May"; 5. "Sing No Sad Songs for Me".
Tempo markings: "Slowly and Freely"; quarter note = 63-69
Performance instructions: For "lyric soprano, contralto;" "coloratura soprano (also published for soprano with a few altered phrases) and piano." (Carman, 926)
Notes: Carman, Gaeddert, Resch and Myers (926) describe the voice and piano for the cycle as follows: "Voice: high tessitura; many different melodic motives; many phrases above the staff; much wordless coloratura; singer leaves stage slowly while singing 'oo' and 'ah' in last song; final phrases sung offstage; ends on D6". Piano: almost constant motion, usually in 8ths; many accidentals; broken-chord patterns; rolled chords; arpeggiation; fast tempos."

Format

Format 1: musical score
5 pages

Source

Other data reference(s): Carman, Judith. "Music Reviews: Fornuto, Donato D. (1931--). 'Christina's Songs.'"  Journal of Singing - The Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Jacksonville, vol. 56, no. 4, Mar 2000, p. 69. ProQuest, www.proquest.com/openview/ffa96d6a50da567c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=971. Accessed 13 Mar. 2023.
Carman, Judith E. et al. Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, 2013, no. 926, pp. 141-2. Google Books, books.google.ca/books?id=a2j062ZhTAcC&lpg=PA421&ots=hvj8lyhlzV&dq=filpat%20publishing&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q=Christina's%20Songs&f=false. Accessed 9 Apr. 2018.
Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Identifier

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-fornuto

Rights

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Collection

Citation

Fornuto, Donato D.; music (American, 1931-2022) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Sing No Sad Songs for Me" [Donato D. Fornuto],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3419.

Item Relations

Item: "Birthday Song" [Donato D. Fornuto] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Seasons" [Donato D. Fornuto] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Who Has Seen the Wind?" [Donato D. Fornuto] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "May" [Donato D. Fornuto] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item