The Tale of the Viking (Whiting, George Elbridge)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 11 sections
  1. Overture.
  2. Chorus (TB) — "Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest!"
  3. Chorus (SATB) — "Then, from those cavernous eyes"
  4. Air for Baritone — "I was a Viking old!"
  5. Chorus (TB/TTBB soli) — "But when I older grew"
  6. Scene and Air for Soprano — "Once as I told in glee"
  7. March and Chorus (SATB) — "Bright! Bright! Bright in her father's hall"
  8. Air for Baritone — "For she was a Prince's child"
  9. Chorus (SATB) — "Scarce had I put to sea"
  10. Romance for Tenor — "There lived we many, many years"
  11. Solo (Soprano) and Chorus (SATB) — "Still grew my bosom then"
Composition Year 1879—1881
Genre Categories Secular cantatas; Cantatas; For 3 voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the baritone voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; English language

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Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. New York: G. Schirmer, 1881. Plate 2575.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes This copy includes annotations of tempi by the composer and apparently some of his second thoughts on pages 44—47 and elsewhere.
Original scans: 300dpi, grayscale jpg2000 images approximately 2100 by 3150 pixels. Converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, re-sampled to 600dpi, and set uniform margins.
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Work Title The Tale of the Viking
Alternative. Title
Composer Whiting, George Elbridge
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IGW 17
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 11 sections
  1. Overture.
  2. Chorus (TB) — "Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest!"
  3. Chorus (SATB) — "Then, from those cavernous eyes"
  4. Air for Baritone — "I was a Viking old!"
  5. Chorus (TB/TTBB soli) — "But when I older grew"
  6. Scene and Air for Soprano — "Once as I told in glee"
  7. March and Chorus (SATB) — "Bright! Bright! Bright in her father's hall"
  8. Air for Baritone — "For she was a Prince's child"
  9. Chorus (SATB) — "Scarce had I put to sea"
  10. Romance for Tenor — "There lived we many, many years"
  11. Solo (Soprano) and Chorus (SATB) — "Still grew my bosom then"
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1879—1881
First Publication. 1881 — New York: G. Schirmer
Librettist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Language English
Dedication To my Friend Allen A. Brown of Boston, Mass.
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation Voices: soprano, tenor, baritone + mixed chorus (SATB),
Orchestra: 3 flutes/piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (B♭, A), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, harp, triangle, military drum, bass drum, timpani, strings

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Whiting's The Tale of the Viking was his submission for the competition at the 1880 Cincinnati Festival. It lost out to Dudley Buck's Scenes from Longfellow's Golden Legend.
The manuscript score and orchestra parts for the overture to The Tale of the Viking were among the music scores in Theodore Thomas' collection that are now held by the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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