Performances
Sheet Music
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The Progressive Music Series Book Four.
Boston: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1915.
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| Copyright
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| Purchase
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General Information
| Work Title
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Windlass Song
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| Alternative. Title
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| Composer
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Elgar, Edward
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IEE 165
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| Key
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C major
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1913 ca.
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| First Publication.
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1915
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| Librettist
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William Allingham
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| Language
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English
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| Average DurationAvg. Duration
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1 minute
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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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mixed chorus (SATB)
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| Extra Information
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For children.
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Navigation etc.
Elgar made four visits to the USA: the last in 1911. He wrote three songs: The Merry-go-round for children's voices in unison with piano accompaniment, The Brook a simple two-part song with piano accompaniment, and Windlass Song for four-part voices (SATB) unaccompanied. The songs were published by Silver, Burdett & Co. in "The Progressive Music Series", books Two (1914), Three (1915) and Four (1915) respectively. All three songs are short. The music notation of the first two is unusually large, as they were written for young children.
Regarding copyrights, Elgar signed a schedule excluding the publication of the songs in any form apart from in that series, and specifically not to be published outside the USA, though in 1921 Elgar gave permission for them to be published in the Canadian edition of that series.
