4 Part Songs, Op.53 (Elgar, Edward)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 songs
Composition Year	1907
Genre Categories	Songs; Secular choruses; Choruses; For 8 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; For mixed chorus; Scores featuring mixed chorus; For unaccompanied chorus; English language

1 Performances
- 1.1 Naxos
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Scores
3 General Information
4 Navigation etc.

Performances

Naxos

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Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
*#450607 - 1.60MB, 37 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 478×⇩ - Albrights

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Publisher. Info.	London: Novello, 1908.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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General Information

Work Title	4 Part Songs
Alternative. Title
Composer	Elgar, Edward
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.53
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IEE 50
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 songs There is Sweet Music Deep in my Soul O Wild West Wind! Owls (An Epitaph)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1907
First Publication.	1908
Librettist	see below Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Composer
Language	English
Dedication	see below To my friend Canon (C.V.) Gorton To Julia H. Worthington To my friend William Gray McNaught W. G. McNaught, Mus. Doc. To my friend Pietro d'Alba
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	8 voices or mixed chorus (SSAATTBB), piano ("For practice only")
External Links	Hyperion Records ; Hyperion Records

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Even the songs that have 4 vocal lines have divisi parts within them, so these are effectively 8-part songs.

It is conjectured that Pietro d’Alba referred to the composer himself. Worthington, an American friend of the Elgar’s, has recently been conjectured to be the dedicatee of the mysterious ***** variation from Elgar’s “Enigma’ set.