"Goblin Market" [Ruth Gipps]

"Goblin Market" [Ruth Gipps]

First line of lyrics: Morning and evening

Gipps, Ruth; music (English, 1921-1999)

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

Gipps, Ruth; adapted text (English, 1921-1999)

1954 [publication] [copyright]

London: Novello

genre: cantata|choral music

solo: soprano

chorus: women's SSA chorus

instrumentation: piano|string orchestra

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 5/8

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Goblin Market"

Notes about the text: The text of the poem is abridged.

Composition history: "Goblin Market" is the culmination of a series of Gipps compositions between 1939 and 1953 that "were preoccupied with tracing experiences from a female perspective" (Halstead, p. 126) and that explore themes of sexuality, the female body, pleasure and punishment (Halstead, pp. 126-27).

Tempo markings: "Allegretto"

Performance instructions: "Cantata for two soprano soloists, S.S.A. chorus and string orchestra (or piano)"

Performance history: Premiered at Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1956 (Campbell, p. 20).

Notes: Arranged as a continuous performance without division into separate sections.

Format 1: vocal score

78 pages of printed musical score, words as text on unpaginated leaves preceding score; performance time 30 minutes

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM270; Gooch and Thatcher 4431

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

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): Halstead, Jill. Ruth Gipps: Anti-modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006.
Campbell, Margaret. "Ruth Gipps: a Woman of Substance." The Maud Powell Signature, no. 3, Winter 1996, pp. 15-34.

Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa

Vocal score: University of Michigan Library

Opus: 40

Record: CRM-goblinmarket-gipps

File(s): CRM-goblinmarket-gipps.pdf; CRM-goblinmarket-gipps-cover.pdf; CRM-goblinmarket-gipps-p78.pdf

"Copyright, 1954, by Novello & Company, Limited." Protected by copyright. The score appears in this archive by kind permission of the copyright holder, Lance Baker.

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