The student enters the candlelit chamber [ ... ]
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  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Sophie Rashbrook , copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.2. Shipwreck Gossip (Old Biddy Brannington) 1816  [sung text checked 1 time]
On the eve of Melmoth’s wedding [ ... ]
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- by Sophie Rashbrook , copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. Elinora's Letter (some salt‑water damage to the text) 1516  [sung text checked 1 time]
Sweetest love [ ... ]
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- by Sophie Rashbrook , copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.4. City of song‑ghosts (narrator reprise)  [sung text checked 1 time]
Melmoth has wandered the earth [ ... ]
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- by Sophie Rashbrook , copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. Deliverance  [sung text checked 1 time]
Are you Melmoth? [ ... ]
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- by Sophie Rashbrook , copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.6. Melmoth's serenade (2020)  [sung text checked 1 time]
And so/ Melmoth the Wanderer [ ... ]
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- by Sophie Rashbrook , copyright ©
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