Cupid and Rosalind" is a pastoral composition by Charles V. Stanford set to music for chorus. The pastoral is a style that paints a conventionalised picture of rural life, often used as a contrast to the artificiality of city and court life. Originally part of his "6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Op. 49" (1892), this beautiful piece will appeal to students and musicians with a love of classical music. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical Society an internationally-acclaimed organisation. Stanford was also a profuse composer, producing a large corpus of work in many genres, however, he is perhaps best remembered for his Anglican choral works for church performance. His music eventually became overshadowed by that of Edward Elgar and a number of his former pupils in the in the 20th century. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of musical notation.