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]

## See also

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* List of compositions by Charles Villiers Stanford

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ a b Sullivan, Jack. New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music, 95ff.

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Charles Villiers Stanford

List of compositions

Operas|

* The Veiled Prophet
* The Critic
* Much Ado About Nothing

Orchestral works|

* Symphony No. 1

Chamber music|

* Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 11
* Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 70
* Serenade in F major, Op. 95

Vocal works|

* 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?

Related articles|

* Anglican church music
* Musical nationalism
* The National Song Book

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Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass
(1855-1892)|

* "Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)
* "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1855)
* "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day" (1865)
* "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855)
* "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1891)
* "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865)
* "One Hour to Madness and Joy" (1860)
* "One's Self I Sing" (1867)
* "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859)
* "Patrolling Barnegat" (1856)
* "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)
* "Prayer of Columbus" (1900)
* "The Sleepers" (1855)
* "Song of Myself" (1855)
* "Song of the Open Road" (1856)
* "This Dust Was Once the Man" (1871)
* "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865)

Sections
Calamus
Sea-Drift
Drum-Taps

Other works|

* List of poems
* Franklin Evans (1842)
* Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (1852)
* Democratic Vistas (1871)
* Passage to India (1871)

Adaptations|

* Elegiac Ode (1884)
* Sea Drift (1906)
* A Sea Symphony (1909)
* Ode to Death (1919)
* Morning Heroes (1930)
* Sea Drift (1933)
* Dona nobis pacem (1936)
* Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (1942)
* When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946)
* The Wound-Dresser (1989)
* Lilacs (1996)
* Symphony No. 2 (1999)
* Dooryard Bloom (2004)

Life and
honoraria|

* Walt Whitman Award
* Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
* Lectures
* Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site
* Walt Whitman House
* The Long Islander
* Walt Whitman Bridge
* Walt Whitman (Davidson)
* Walt Whitman High School (Maryland)
* Walt Whitman High School (New York)
* Walt Whitman Shops
* Whitman-Walker Health

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Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Musical settings|

* Elegiac Ode (1884)
* Ode to Death (1919)
* When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946)
* Lilacs (1996)
* Dooryard Bloom (2004)

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