Performances
Sheet Music
Chorus Scores
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New York: Martens Brothers, 1878. Plate 152.
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| Copyright
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General Information
| Work Title
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Adrift
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| Alternative. Title
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"Part-song" for TTBB.
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| Composer
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Florio, Caryl
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| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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ICF 1
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| Key
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A-flat major
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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1 (Andante, ma non troppo lento)
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| Text Incipit
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Drift, let it drift; the cords are snapped that curbed it
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1877-12
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| First Publication.
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1878 – New York: Martens Brothers
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| Librettist
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J.S.D.
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| Language
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English
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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| Piece Style
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Romantic
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| Instrumentation
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TTBB chorus a capella
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Navigation etc.
From a poem by J.S.D.? in the November 3, 1877 "Spectator".
Actually, the choral lines seem to require yet further subdivision in places even on the first page- unless the vocalists can hold fifth chords etc., this suggests we're actually talking 4T4B chorus
Called a part-song though sold in score (and the scan at the LoC is of the score). Since a part-song is a song that is sold in parts- generally without conductor's score, for economy, this seems a contradiction in terms, or else some sort of expansion of language, in which case part-song in 1878 meant- what? (Though maybe not expansion, but rather, distinction between American and English uses. Am going by English use - from a discussion of the meaning of the word part-song, as against chorus songs, in Elgar's time a generation later, specifically.)- Schissel
