Music
Somerset is the author of Songs of adieu (1889) and A song of sleep (Ricordi, 1903). His setting to music of Christina Rossetti's Echo enjoyed considerable success when it was published by Chappell & Co. c.1900.
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“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
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And crawled head downward down a blackened wall....”
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