Composition: The Tale of the Viking (Whiting, George Elbridge)

Title The Tale of the Viking
Creators George Elbridge Whiting (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist)
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Instrumentation soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra
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Composed 1879
First published 1881
Dedication To my Friend Allen A. Brown of Boston, Mass.
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Composition types Secular cantatas
Language English
Period Romantic
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Overture. — — —
Chorus (TB) - "Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest!" — — —
Chorus (SATB) - "Then, from those cavernous eyes" — — —
Air for Baritone - "I was a Viking old!" — — —
Chorus (TB/TTBB soli) - "But when I older grew" — — —
Scene and Air for Soprano - "Once as I told in glee" — — —
March and Chorus (SATB) - "Bright! Bright! Bright in her father's hall" — — —
Air for Baritone - "For she was a Prince's child" — — —
Chorus (SATB) - "Scarce had I put to sea" — — —
Romance for Tenor - "There lived we many, many years" — — —
Solo (Soprano) and Chorus (SATB) - "Still grew my bosom then" — — —

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