With Tennyson at the Keyboard : A Victorian Songbook
New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.
Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #10635
ISBN: 0824088727
Ink note on rear paste-down, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover. ; "This volume is concerned with the efforts of a number of [Victorian] musicians, both professional and amateur, to write appropriate settings for poems by Tennyson. Strict technical analysis is for others to pursue. Attention here is directed toward the relevance of the settings to the poems for which they are written. My aim has been to gather the poems and the settings into a useful whole." - Introduction. Contents: Queen of the May / Mrs. Robert Arkwright; The splendour falls on castle walls / J.G. Barnard ; arrangement by A. Apelles; Crossing the bar ; Sweet and low / Joseph Barnby; Crossing the bar / Sir Frederick Bridge; Strong son of God / George Elvey; Ring out, wild bells / Charles Gounod; Ring out the old, ring in the new / Anonymous; A farewell ; Tears, idle tears ; Edward Gray ; Sweet and low / Edward Lear; Home they brought her warrior dead ; Too late, too late / Miss M. Lindsay (Mrs. I. Worthington Bliss); The poets song / Sir Hubert Parry; O, morning star / Alfred H. Pease; Crossing the bar / Marietta Piccolomini; Now sleeps the crimson petal / Roger Quilter; A voice by the cedar tree / Camille Saint-Saëns; Love is and was my lord and king ; With weary steps I loiter on ; Cradle song / Mrs. Shapcote; The fault was mine ; O that 'twere possible / Sir Arthur Somervell; Milkmaid's song ; The lute song ; Crossing the bar / Sir Charles Stanford; Spring wakens ; Ring out, wild bells / Warren Storey-Smith; Edward Gray / Sir Arthur Sullivan; Minnie and Winnie ; The city child ; To sleep, to sleep ; A call to arms / Emily, Lady Tennyson; The brook / William West. ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; Vol. 527; xxv, 236 pages.
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