Love brought Me down (Geoff Allan)

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• (Posted 2025-11-06)  CPDL #87327:       

Editor: Geoff Allan (submitted 2025-11-06).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 396 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: This is a setting for SATB choir and piano of five verses of a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) called "A Candlemas Dialogue". The poem is written as a dialogue, or conversation, between an unnamed speaker and the speaker's inner self. The poem discusses themes of repentance, joy, and suffering. Rossetti was an English poet who wrote the words of two well known carols, "In the bleak midwinter" and "Love came down at Christmas".

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Title: Love Brought Me Down
Composer: Geoff Allan
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2025
Description: This is a setting for SATB choir and piano of five verses of a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) called "A Candlemas Dialogue". The poem is written as a dialogue, or conversation, between an unnamed speaker and the speaker's inner self. The poem discusses themes of repentance, joy, and suffering. Rossetti was an English poet who wrote the words of two well known carols, "In the bleak midwinter" and "Love came down at Christmas".

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