Elegiac Ode
Music by Charles Villiers Stanford
Elegiac Ode, Op. 21, is a musical composition by British composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) written and first performed in 1884. It is a four-movement work scored for baritone and soprano soloists, chorus and orchestra,[1] Stanford's composition is a setting of Walt Whitman's 1865 elegy, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", mourning the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.[2] According to musicologist Jack Sullivan, Stanford's Elegiac Ode likely had reached a wider audience during Whitman's lifetime than his poems.[2]
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References
- ^ Town, Stephen, "'Full of fresh thoughts'’: Vaughan Williams, Whitman, and the Genesis of A Sea Symphony", in Adams, Byron, and Wells, Robin (editors), Vaughan Williams Essays, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003), 73-102, at 78.
- ^ a b Sullivan, Jack. New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music, 95ff.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
- The Veiled Prophet
- The Critic
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Symphony No. 1
- Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 11
- Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 70
- Serenade in F major, Op. 95
- The Blue Bird
- Elegiac Ode
- Three Latin Motets (Stanford)
- Service in B-flat major, Op. 10
- Songs of the Sea
- Why seek ye the living?
- Anglican church music
- Musical nationalism
- The National Song Book
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