Songs. Selections Contains (expression): Clapham Town end; arranged.
Notes:
This volume contains all of the 19th century songs of Elgar, including complete songs, arrangements, sketches and unfinished works. With a foreword and critical commentary. Each song followed by its individual sources and commentary. Illustrations are of some of the writers whose texts Elgar set: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Hay, Algernon Swinburne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Richard Garnett, James Gates Percival, Ellen Burroughs alias Sophie Jewett, Barry Pain, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Christina Rosetti and Thomas Ingoldsby alias Richard Harris Barham, p. xiv. Facsimiles include composer's manuscript pages, and pages from early published songs engraved by someone other than Elgar or his wife Alice.
Contents:
V. The swimmer / Adam Lindsay Gordon.). The self-banished / Edmund Waller -- A war song, op. 5 no. 1 / C. Flavell Hayward -- 'Through the long days', op. 16 no. 2 / Col. John Hay -- 'Is she not passing fair?' / Louisa Stuart Costello from the French of Charles, Duc d'OrleĢans -- 'As I laye a-thynkynge' / Thomas Ingoldsby -- Queen Mary's song (The lute song from Queen Mary) / Lord Tennyson -- Roundel: 'The little eyes that never knew light' / A.C. Swinburne -- The wind at dawn / C. Alice Roberts -- 'Like to the Damask rose' / Simon Wastell -- The poet's life / Ellen Burroughs -- A song of autumn / Adam Lindsay Gordon -- The shepherd's song, op. 16 no. 1 / Barry Pain from The nine muses minus one -- The mill wheel songs: I -- Winter / C. Alice Elgar -- Muleteer's serenade / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, from Don Quixote translated by Peter Anthony Motteux -- Rondel, op. 16 no. 3 / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from a rondel by Jean Froissart -- After, op. 31 no. 1 / Philip Bourke Marston -- A song of flight, op. 31 no. 2 / Christina Rosetti -- Love alone will stay (lute song) / C. Alice Elgar -- 'Dry those fair, those crystal eyes' / Henry King -- The pipes of Pan / Adrian Ross -- Sea pictures, op. 37 ( I. Sea-slumber song / Roden Noel -- II. In haven (Capri) / C. Alice Elgar -- III. Sabbath morning at sea / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- IV. Where corals lie / Richard Garnett -- V. The swimmer / Adam Lindsay Gordon.). Appendix -- sketches and unfinished works: Ophelia's song / William Shakespeare from Hamlet. Sabbath morning at sea (with piano and organ accompaniment) -- Appendix -- sketches and unfinished works: 'If she love me' = Temple Bar rondeau / 'R.C.G.' -- Ophelia's song / William Shakespeare from Hamlet.
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