O Mistress Mine

 

 

 

Poet: Thomas Hardy

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Musical Analysis

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Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes - Distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation

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Pitch Analysis
  pitch
stanza 1
stanza 2
stanza 3
stanza 4
total
highest
A
G
F
E
D
middle C
B
A
G
F
lowest
E

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Interval Analysis of Vocal Line
interval
direction
stanza 1
stanza 2
stanza 3
stanza 4
total
occurrences
minor 3rd
up
minor 3rd
down
major 3rd
up
major 3rd
down
perfect 4th
up
perfect 4th
down
perfect 5th
up
perfect 5th
down
minor 6th
up
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down
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up
minor 7th
down
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up
octave
down
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total
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Rhythm Duration Analysis of Vocal Line
  stanza 1 stanza 2 stanza 3 stanza 4 total
16th note
8th note
dotted 8th
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dotted half
 
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Audio Recordings

Vagabond: Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Vagabond: Teddy Tahu Rhodes - ABC album cover

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Baker: BBC Legends
Baker: BBC Legends album cover

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Gerald Finzi: Meditation
Meditation with Finzi's Dies Natalis performed by: Anderson, Braun, Campbell, Et Al

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If There Were Dreams to Sell
If There Were Dreams to Sell - Chandos album cover

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Finzi: Dies Natalis
Conifer 51285 Finzi: Dies Natalis album cover

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The British Music Collection: Gerald Finzi
Decca 468 807-2 The British Music Collection: Gerald Finzi

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The Vagabond & other songs
Bryn Terfel sings Finzi
  • Works: Finzi's Let Us Garlands Bring. Please click on album image to view complete listing.
  • Recorded: Feb. 1995; released: Aug. 1995
  • Record Label: Deutsche Grammophon DG 445946
  • Playing time: 77 minutes 13 seconds

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Jonathan Lemalu: Love Blows as the Wind Blows
Love Blows As The Wind Blows - Finzi's Let Us Garlands Bring performed by Lemalu and Martineau

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Come Away, Death
Come Away, Death cover art
  • Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano
  • Sergej Osadchuk, piano
  • Works: Gerald Finzi's "Come Away, Death" from Let Us Garlands Bring as well as works by: Korngod, Sibelius, Mussorgsky et. al. Please click album image to see complete listing.
  • Recorded: January 2009; released August 2010
  • Hybrid 2L-064-SACD
  • Playing time: 60 minutes 40 seconds

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English Orchestral Songs
English Orchestral Songs - Hyperion album cover
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Works: Finzi's Let Us Garlands Bring. Please click on album image to view complete listing.
  • Recorded: Aug. 1998; released April 1999
  • Record Label: Hyperion 67065
  • Playing time 72 minutes

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Finzi
Finzi: Loves Labours Lost, Let Us Garlands Bring - Lyrita album cover

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Catherine Robbin
Marquis Music - Catherine Robbin album cover

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Elegy
Elegy album cover
  • Paul Whelan, baritone
  • David Harper, piano
  • Works: Finzi's Let Us Garlands Bring. Please click on album image to view complete listing.
  • Recorded: Jan. 1999
  • Record Label: MMT2023
  • Playing time: 65 minutes

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The Best of Finzi
The Best of Finzi album cover
  • Works: Finzi's A Young Man's Exhortation (song) and It never looks like summer. Additionally there are other vocal and instrumental works by Finzi. Please click on album image to view complete list.
  • Recorded: 1998-2008; released 2008.
  • Naxos 8.556836.
  • Playing time: 76 minutes and 18 seconds

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The English Song Series - 12
I said to Love album cover
  • Works: Finzi's I Said to Love, Let Us Garlands Bring, and Before and After Summer. Please click on album image to view complete listing.
  • Recorded: Aug. 2004; released: May 2005
  • Record Label: Naxos 8.557644
  • Playing time: 61 minutes 19 seconds

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Janet Baker: English Song Anthology
Janet Baker: English Song anthology - Regis album cover
  • Works: Finzi's Come away, death and It was a Lover and his Lass from Let Us Garlands Bring. Please click on album image to view complete listing.
  • Recorded: 1963; reissued Jan. 2007
  • Record Label: Regis 1265
  • Playing time: 45 minutes

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Sherrill Milnes In Recital Vol. 2 - Kingdom By The Sea
Sherrill Milnes sings Finzi songs
  • Jon Spong, piano
  • Works: Finzi's O Mistress Mine and It Was a Lover and His Lass from Let Us Garlands Bring. Please click on album image to view complete listing.
  • Recorded: 1980-1990
  • Record Label: VAI Audio 1141
  • Playing time 69 minutes

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Unpublished Analysis Excerpts


 

The following is an analysis of **** by Gerhardus Daniël Van der Watt. Dr. Van der Watt extended permission to post this excerpt from his dissertation on October 8th, 2010. His dissertation dated November 1996, is entitled:

 

The Songs of Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) To Poems by Thomas Hardy

 

This excerpt comes from Volume II and begins on page *** and concludes on page ***. To view the methodology used within Dr. Van der Watt's dissertation please refer to: Methodology - Van der Watt.

1. Poet

Specific background concerning poem:

2. Poem

CONTENT/MEANING

STYLE

FORM

3. Synthesis

Setting

1. Timbre

VOICE TYPE/RANGE

ACCOMPANIMENT CHARACTERISTICS

2. Duration

METRE

RHYTHM

Rhythmic motifs

Rhythmic activity vs. Rhythmic stagnation

Rhythmically perceptive, erroneous and interesting settings

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SPEED

3. Pitch

MELODY

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Interval
Bar no.
Word/s
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Climaxes

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Pitch
Word

Phrase lengths

TONALITY

System no.
From - To
Suggested reason/s

Chromaticism

HARMONY AND COUNTERPOINT

Non-harmonic tones

Harmonic devices

Counterpoint

4. Dynamics

FREQUENCY

RANGE

VARIETY

DYNAMIC ACCENTS

5. Texture

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2 parts
3 parts
4 parts
5 parts
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6. Structure

7. Mood and atmosphere

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