Six Songs of Melmoth

Song Cycle by Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b. 1980) 

A musical matryoshka 
inspired by Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin and Melmoth by Sarah Perry

1. The Painting (Narrator) 1816
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The student enters the candlelit chamber
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2. Shipwreck Gossip (Old Biddy Brannington) 1816
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On the eve of Melmoth’s wedding
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3. Elinora's Letter (some salt‑water damage to the text) 1516
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Sweetest love
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4. City of song‑ghosts (narrator reprise)
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Melmoth has wandered the earth
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5. Deliverance
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Are you Melmoth?
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6. Melmoth's serenade (2020)
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And so/ Melmoth the Wanderer
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Total word count: 616