Book 1. Pointed Roofs: Playlist of Music Mentioned in the Book

Among the major themes in Pilgrimage introduced in Pointed Roofs is music. Miriam Henderson has grown up playing the piano and performing duets with her sisters and one of her early and highly favorable impressions of Fraulein Pfaff’s school is of the caliber of the musicianship as she listens to the students perform in the music room:

Emma Bergmann was playing. The single notes of the opening motif of Chopin’s Fifteenth Nocturne fell pensively into the waiting room. Miriam, her fatigue forgotten, slid to a featureless freedom. It seemed to her that the light with which the room was filled grew brighter and clearer. She felt that she was looking at nothing and yet was aware of the whole room like a picture in a dream. Fear left her. The human forms all round her lost their power. They grew suffused and dim…. The pensive swing of the music changed to urgency and emphasis…. It came nearer and nearer. It did not come from the candle-lit corner where the piano was…. It came from everywhere. It carried her out of the house, out of the world.

You can listen to the majority of the musical pieces mentioned in Pointed Roofs on this YouTube playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEuwqhzbsAguuUEhfrQtP9Y14y2tdRFIg

It includes the following:

• “The Wearing of the Green” – a traditional song
• “He was despised” from Handel’s Messiah
  • An example composition from William Hutchins Callcott, The Holy Family, sacred melodies by Handel, Haydn, Méhul, Meyerbeer arranged for piano as duets
• Stephen Heller, “Sleepless Nights, characteristic pieces for the pianoforte” (1854); “Nuits blanches,” Op. 82
• “Chanson de Florian” by Benjamin L. P. Godard, Paris (1872)
• Chopin’s Fifteenth Nocturne
• Spring Song, a piano piece, Op. 62, No. 6 by Felix Mendelssohn
• “When He Cometh,” a hymn with words by William Orcutt Cushing (1823-1903), music by George Frederick Root
• Sonata Pathétique by Beethoven
• “Venetian Song” by Francesco Tosti
• “Beauty’s Eyes’ by Francesco Tosti
• “An Old Garden” by Hope Temple
• “In Old Madrid” by Henry Trotère
• “Lead, Kindly Light,” written by John Henry Newman with music by J. B. Dykes
• “Nun danket alle Gott,” German hymn by Martin Rinckart
• “Du meine Seele, du mein Herz”, lieder by Robert Schumann, Opus 25, No. 1
• “The March of the Men of Harlech,” arranged by John D’Este
• “Solveig’s Song”, from Edvard Grieg’s Incidental Music for Peer Gynt
• “An den Sonnenschein”, lieder by Robert Schumann, Opus 36, No. 4
• Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber
• “Dass Du Mich Liebst”, poem by Heinrich Heine arranged by Ludwig Heidingsfeld
• “Seit ich ihn gessehen”, lieder from Robert Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben, Opus 42,
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• “A Few More Years”, hymn by Horatius Bonar with music by L. G. Hayne
• “Abide with Me”, hymn by Henry Francis Lyte with music by William Henry Monk
• “O Strength and Stay”, hymn – music by J. B. Dykes