"The Place of Understanding" [Nico Muhly]
title: First line of lyrics: Oh why is heaven built so far
subject: genre: song|art song (lied)
subject: solo: tenor
subject: instrumentation: organ
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "De Profundis"
description: Work contains texts by multiple authors
description: Notes about the text: This work also includes an excerpt from the Book of Job (Job 28: 20-28).
description: Composition history: "Commissioned by the Hanson Institute for American Music of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester." The composer's note reads: "The Place of Understanding is, at its heart, an organ solo piece with tenor commentary. While the traditional structures of art songs occasionally apply, the piece attempts to feature the organ as an equal partner in treating and bridging the two wildly different texts. While the first part is episodic, romantic, and rushes from one tonal center to the next, the second part (with the words taken from the Book of Job) is stiller, and allows the organist to create a delicate texture on top of which the tenor slowly and deliberately articulates the biblical text."
description: Tempo markings: "Forceful"; quarter note = 96
description: Performance history: "The first performance was given by Oliver Brewer, tenor, and Christian Lane, organ, on 14 May 2006 at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City."
description: Dedication: "for Christian Lane"
creator: Muhly, Nico; music (American, born 1981)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
creator: Unknown; text (biblical text)
source: Other data reference(s): "The Place of Understanding (2006)." Wise Music Classical, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/45857/. Accessed 24 March 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "The Place of Understanding (2006)." Wise Music Classical, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/45857/. Accessed 24 March 2020.
publisher: St. Rose Music Publishing
date: 2006 [publication] [copyright]
rights: "Copyright © 2006 St. Rose Music Publishing Co. and Chester Music Limited."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 7 pages; performance time 13 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-deprofundis-conte

"My Love is Come" [Theo Marzials]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song
subject: solo: voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: two sharps
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Composition history: "In September 1881, Marzials and 'Mrs. Moncrieff' had apparently written to [Christina Rossetti] regarding a setting of the poem. However, it is unclear from [Rossetti's] response whether Marzials was setting the poem by himself, or with (or for), Moncrieff, herself a singer and composer who published her own setting in 1882" (Ives DM41).
description: Tempo markings: "Allegro Appassionata"
description: Performance history: "Among the most popular Rossetti settings, frequently reprinted in Britain, the United States, and Australia, and frequently performed. Announcements or reviews of public performances appeared in the Academy (7 July 1883: 17); the Musical Standard (7 April 1883: 207); the Musical World (30 June 1888: 516); and the London Times (4 October 1897: 1)" (Ives DM41).
description: Dedication: "To Edward Morton"
description: Notes: Available in two keys "No. 1 in C" and "No. 2 in D". "My Love Is Come" was very popular, and was republished many times; Ives lists seven republishings in London, New York, Sydney, and Boston before 1900 (Ives DM41).
creator: Marzials, Theo [Theophile Jules Henri]; music (English 1850-1920)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Ives DM41; Gooch and Thatcher 4225
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score in D: National Library of Australia, https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1565719. Accessed 28 Nov. 2016.
publisher: London, New York: Boosey & Co.; New York: C. H. Ditson & Co.; Sydney: W. H. Paling & Co.
date: 1881 [composition] [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 5 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-marzials
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-marzials.pdf

"Birthday Song" [F. Korbay]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song
subject: solo: voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Tempo markings: "Andante con molto spirito"
description: Dedication: "To Miss Emma Schenck"
creator: Korbay, F. [Ferencz Sandor]; music (Hungarian, 1846-1913)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Ives DM53
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Other data reference(s): "Birthday Song." Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1884.07434/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1884.07434/.
publisher: London: Schott; Leipzig: Stanley Lucas & Co.; New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co.
date: 1884 [copyright]; 1895 [publication]
rights: "Library of Congress, Music Division"
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 6 pages (pp. 2-7)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-korbay
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-korbay.pdf

title unknown [setting of "A Birthday"] [Adrienne Ardenne]
subject: genre: song
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Notes: "Compass C to F" (Broadhouse 174).
creator: Ardenne, Adrienne; music (British, pseudonym, active 1891)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Ives DM100
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Other data reference(s): Broadhouse, J. (1891). Reviews. Musical Standard, 41(1413), 174. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/docview/7621930?accountid=14701. Accessed 21 Jan. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
publisher: London: Weekes & Co.
date: 1891 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-ardenne

"Echo" [Jack Gibbons]
title: First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
subject: genre: song|art song (lied)
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
description: Recordings: Gibbons, Jack. "Gibbons: Echo, Op.18." Performance by Ann Mackay, soprano, Jack Gibbons, piano, recorded by Tony Faulkner at Henry Wood Hall, London, 17 Nov. 2003. YouTube, uploaded 24 April 2010, https://youtu.be/nzuwAHJYPeo.
creator: Gibbons, Jack; music (English, born 1962)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "Echo." Jack Gibbons Pianist & Composer, jackgibbons.com/echo.htm. Accessed 2 Mar. 2018.
source: Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa
date: 2001 [composition]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
language: English
identifier: Opus: 18
identifier: Record: CRM-echo-gibbons

"A Birthday" [Lord Henry Somerset]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song
subject: solo: voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 3/8
subject: other version 1 - solo: voice
subject: other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
subject: other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Composition history: The score states that "The words printed by kind permission of Messrs. MacMillan & Co." "Probably composed much earlier [than publication date]. Somerset [...] had contacted [Christina Rossetti] in 1880 for permission to publish settings of one or more of her songs. [Christina Rossetti] initially assented, but [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] convinced her to withdraw her consent because (as [William Michael Rossetti] wrote in his diary) 'there was not long ago a terrible scandal (but G. did not give C. any details of this) regarding Lord H. & a son of Mrs. Dalrymple' (WMRD 9 September 1880; see also Letters 2: 248)" (Ives DM129).
description: Tempo markings: "Moderato."
description: Notes: "No.1 in E flat | No. 2 in F"
creator: Somerset, Henry Richard Charles, Lord; music (English, 1849-1932)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4230; Ives DM129
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Katherine Rainville, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: British Library, London
publisher: London: Chappel & Co.
date: 1895 [publication]
rights: "MAY BE SUNG WITHOUT FEE OR LICENSE."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 4 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-somerset
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-somerset-Eflat.pdf; CRM-birthday-somerset-F.pdf

"Echo" [John Musto]
title: First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
title: Part of: "Recuerdo"
subject: genre: song|art song (lied)|song cycle
subject: solo: medium voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: other version 1 - solo: high voice
subject: other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
subject: other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Recuerdo" which includes 1. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Recuerdo" (Edna St. Vincent Millay); 3. "A Last Song (In Memoriam Jeffrey French)" (Louise Bogan).
description: Tempo markings: "Slow, mysterious, obsessive"; quarter note = 52
description: Recordings: "Recuerdo" Thomson/Bowlesl/Hoiby/ Hundley/Musto/Klein: Songs. Performance by William Sharp, baritone and Steven Blier, piano. New World Records, 1989. "John Musto: Recuerdo (Video Perusal Score)." YouTube, uploaded by SimeonStylites, 24 May 2017. https://youtu.be/V10H1fSCj2U.
description: Dedication: "For William Sharp and Steven Blier"
creator: Musto, John; music (American, born 1954)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
source: Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa
source: musical score for high voice: Musto, John. "Echo." Selected Songs for high voice and piano. Southern Music Publishing/Peer Musikverlag, 1995, pp.2-9. Library of the University of Texas at Austin.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "John Musto: Recuerdo (Video Perusal Score)." For medium voice. YouTube, uploaded by SimeonStylites, 24 May 2017. https://youtu.be/V10H1fSCj2U.
publisher: Peermusic Classical
date: 1988
rights: "COPYRIGHT 1988 By Southern Music Publishing Co. Ltd"
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 16 pages; performance time 6 minutes and 24 seconds (for medium voice). 8 pages (pp. 2-9); performance time 6 minutes and 24 seconds (for high voice)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-echo-musto

"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [Jack Gibbons]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song|choral music
subject: solo: soprano
subject: chorus: mixed chorus
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"|"'If I were a Queen'"
description: Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts
description: Notes about the text: Combines the text of two Rossetti poems, "A Birthday" and "If I were a Queen," into one song.
description: Composition history: "Three years ago I was asked by the President of Davis & Elkins College to write a work to celebrate the 75th West Virginia Mountain State Forest Festival, whose 78th festival is taking place in Elkins West Virginia this week. The Mountain State Forest Festival, one of the largest and oldest festivals in West Virginia, was established to promote the beauty and splendor of this scenic and wildlife-abundant State, with an emphasis on conservation." (Gibbons)
description: Performance instructions: For two sopranos and mixed chorus.
description: Performance history: "It received two performances during the 2011 Forest Festival, an evening concert performance by the choir of Davis & Elkins College (conducted by their choral director Liz Marshall-McVean) and then a special outside presentation as a prelude to the 'Queen Silvia Coronation ceremony' (a mock-royal event that has taken place at every Forest Festival since its founding in 1930, and which symbolizes a love of nature and the rural beauty of West Virginia). The two Christina Rossetti poems were chosen for their aptness for the occasion: "A birthday" is a wonderful celebratory poem, appropriate not only for the festival's 75th birthday but also because of Rossetti's beautiful references to mother nature. The second poem, "If I were a Queen", is one of Christina Rossetti's delightful children's poems from her 1872 collection 'Sing-Song'. I chose it for the slower central chorale to mark the Coronation of Queen Silvia." For the first performances, the soprano solos were sung by Hillary Barlow and Danielle Riggins" (Gibbons).
description: Recordings: Gibbons, Jack. "Gibbons: 'My heart is like a singing bird' Op.91." Live performance by Danielle Riggins and Hillary Barlow, soprano soloists, with the choir of Davis & Elkins College conducted by Liz Marshall-McVean on 6th October 2011. YouTube, uploaded 7 Oct. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMiwGtIf1Q. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019. Gibbons, Jack. "Jack Gibbons: 'My heart is like a singing bird' Op.91." Rehearsal performance by Danielle Riggins and Hillary Barlow, soprano soloists, with the choir of Davis & Elkins College conducted by Liz Marshall-McVean on 6th October 2011. YouTube, uploaded 2 Oct. 2014, https://youtu.be/dne4vMtCzN4. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019.
description: Dedication: "'My heart is like a singing bird' is dedicated, with much gratitude and affection, to Buck and Joni Smith" (Gibbons)
creator: Gibbons, Jack; music (English, born 1962)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Gibbons, Jack. "My heart is like a singing bird." Facebook, 2 Oct. 2014, https://www.facebook.com/JackGibbonsPiano/posts/10152884827854384. Accessed 1 Feb. 2018. Gibbons, Jack. "Gibbons: 'My heart is like a singing bird' Op.91." YouTube, uploaded 7 Oct. 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMiwGtIf1Q. Accessed 1 Feb. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
date: 2011 [composition]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
language: English
identifier: Opus: 91
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-gibbon

"Somewhere or Other" [Thomas Schudel]
title: First line of lyrics: Somewhere or other there must surely be
title: Part of: "A Christina Rossetti Folio"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: saxophone (alto)|marimba
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: Canada
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Somewhere or Other"
description: Place in the larger work: The fourth song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
description: Tempo markings: "Adagio mysterioso"; quarter note = 60
description: Performance instructions:
description: Performance history: Premiered November 1999 at the Riddell Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, with Lynn Channing, soprano, Karen Finnsson, sax, Bruce Brander, marimba.
description: Dedication: "for Lynn Channing, Karen Finnsson and Bruce Brander"
creator: Schudel, Thomas; music (Canadian, born in the United States, 1937)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 24 March 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
publisher: Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
date: 1999 [composition] [copyright]
rights: "© Thomas Schudel, 1999"
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 3 pages (pp. 12-14); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-somewhereorother-schudel

"No, Thank You, John" [Thomas Schudel]
title: First line of lyrics: No! No! No! No! I never said I loved you, John:
title: Part of: "A Christina Rossetti Folio"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: saxophone (alto)|marimba
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: Canada
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "No, Thank You, John"
description: Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
description: Notes about the text: Schudel omits small passages and moves others. Additional text is found at the beginning and the end of the song: "No! No! No! No!" are "spoken decisively" at the beginning.
description: Tempo markings: "Allegro"; quarter note = 132
description: Performance instructions:
description: Performance history: Premiered November 1999 at the Riddell Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, with Lynn Channing, soprano, Karen Finnsson, sax, Bruce Brander, marimba.
description: Dedication: "for Lynn Channing, Karen Finnsson and Bruce Brander"
creator: Schudel, Thomas; music (Canadian, born in the United States, 1937)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
publisher: Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
date: 1999 [composition] [copyright]
rights: "© Thomas Schudel, 1999"
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 8 pages (pp. 15-22); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-nothankyou-schudel

"I Wish" [Thomas Schudel]
title: First line of lyrics: I wish I could remember that first day
title: Part of: "A Christina Rossetti Folio"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: saxophone (alto)|marimba
subject: initial sharps/flats: two flats
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: Canada
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Monna Innominata"
description: Place in the larger work: The third song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
description: Notes about the text: This song is a setting "I Wish", sonnet number 2 in "Monna Innominata."
description: Tempo markings: "Andante"; quarter note = 72
description: Performance instructions:
description: Performance history: Premiered November 1999 at the Riddell Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, with Lynn Channing, soprano, Karen Finnsson, sax, Bruce Brander, marimba.
description: Dedication: "for Lynn Channing, Karen Finnsson and Bruce Brander"
creator: Schudel, Thomas; music (Canadian, born in the United States, 1937)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
publisher: Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
date: 1999 [composition] [copyright]
rights: "© Thomas Schudel, 1999"
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 6 pages (pp. 9-14); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-monnainnominata-schudel

"A Wintry Sonnet" [Thomas Schudel]
title: First line of lyrics: A Robin said: The Spring will never come
title: Part of: "A Christina Rossetti Folio"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: saxophone (alto)|marimba
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: Canada
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Wintry Sonnet"
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of five in the song cycle called "A Christina Rossetti Folio," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "A Wintry Sonnet"; 2. "When I am Dead"; 3. "I Wish"; 4. "Somewhere or Other"; 5. "No, Thank You, John."
description: Tempo markings: "Allegro"; quarter note = 120
description: Performance instructions:
description: Performance history: Premiered November 1999 at the Riddell Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, with Lynn Channing, soprano, Karen Finnsson, sax, Bruce Brander, marimba.
description: Dedication: "for Lynn Channing, Karen Finnsson and Bruce Brander"
creator: Schudel, Thomas; music (Canadian, born in the United States, 1937)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063.
source: This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Christina Rossetti Folio." Canadian Music Centre, https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/21063. Accessed 31 August 2019.
publisher: Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
date: 1999 [composition] [copyright]
rights: "© Thomas Schudel, 1999"
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 5 pages (pp. 1-5); complete song cycle performance time 11 minutes
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-wintrysonnet-schudel

"A Birthday / Ein Geburtstag." "A Birthday" [Frederic H. Cowen]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird / Mein Herz ist wie ein Vögelein
subject: genre: song|parlour song
subject: solo: soprano|tenor
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: five flats
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: other version 1 - solo: soprano|tenor
subject: other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
subject: other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: two flats
subject: other version 2 - solo: soprano|tenor
subject: other version 2 - instrumentation: piano
subject: other version 2 - initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Tempo markings: "Poco allegretto ma appassionato"; quarter note = 72
description: Performance instructions: The solo may be sung by either a soprano or tenor.
description: Recordings: Cowen, Frederic H., et al., "A birthday : my love is like a singing bird /​ F. H. Cowen. The cuckoo /​ [music by] Liza Lehmann." Performance by Rosina Buckman, soprano with orchestra. Columbia Record, 1900. Trove, National Library of Australia, https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23973534. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.
description: Dedication: "To my friend William Shakespeare" (English version)
description: Notes: Two versions of this piece in D flat (five flats) have been identified, one with lyrics in both English and German, and one with only English lyrics. Another version in B flat (two flats) has been located in British Library (Ives DM105).
creator: Cowen, Frederic H. [Hymen]; music (English, born in Jamaica, 1852-1935)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
creator: Sturm, L. G.; translated text
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4212; Ives DM105
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score in D flat in German and English: University of Maine, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/4816/
source: musical score in D flat in English: Cowen, Frederic H. "A Birthday." Twelve Songs, Joseph Williams, 1892, pp. 46-49. Royal Academy of Music Library, London
publisher: London: Joseph Williams; New York: Edward Schuberth & Co.
date: 1892 [publication] [copyright]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 4 pages (pp. 4-7); 4 pages (pp. 46-49)
language: English|German
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-cowen
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-cowen-dflat-ger-eng.pdf; CRM-birthday-cowen-dflat-eng.pdf

"Come to Me in Dreams" [Mrs. Lynedoch Moncrieff]
title: First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
subject: genre: song
subject: solo: voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: one flat
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: other version 1 - solo: voice
subject: other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
subject: other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one sharp
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: female composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
description: Composition history: "The words by Christina G. Rosetti [sic] (By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.)"
description: Tempo markings: "Andante."
description: Dedication: "Composed expressly for, and sung by Miss Damian"
description: Notes: "No. 1 in F. No. 2 in G"
creator: Moncrieff, Nita Gaetano, Mrs. Lynedoch Moncrieff; music (British, born Antoinette Gaëtano in 1851)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Ives DM86
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
source: musical score in F: British Library, London
publisher: London: Enoch & Sons
date: 1886 [publication]
rights: "May be sung in public without fee or license."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 6 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-echo-moncrieff
identifier: File(s): CRM-echo-moncrieff-f.pdf

"The First Spring Day" [A.C. Mackenzie]
title: First line of lyrics: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet
title: Part of: "Three Songs"
subject: genre: song|art song (lied)|song cycle
subject: solo: voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: three flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "The First Spring Day"
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of three in the song cycle called "Three Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "The First Spring Day"; 2. "When I Am Dead"; 3. "A Birthday".
description: Tempo markings: "Allegro moderato"
description: Notes: Also published by Novello, Ewer & Co., in Mackenzie's song collection "Eighteen Songs," book three (of three), which includes two song cycles (opus 17 and 16): 1. "The first spring day" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "When I am dead" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Up with the sail" (J. Logie Robertson); 5. "O roaming wind" (J. Logie Robertson); 6. "Something sad" (J. Logie Robertson).
creator: Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell, Sir; music (Scottish, 1847-1935)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Ives DM33; Gooch and Thatcher 4419
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Other data reference(s): Record for “Three songs, op. 17.” WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646695297. Accessed 19 Oct. 2018.
source: Cataloguer: Abbey Jurgeneit and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: music score: Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell. Eighteen Songs. Op. 17 and 31 [etc.], London: Novello and Company, n.d., pp. 61-76. Robarts Library, University of Toronto.
publisher: London and New York: Novello, Ewer and Co.
date: 1878 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 5 pages (pp. 61-66)
language: English
identifier: Opus: 17, number 1
identifier: Record: CRM-firstspringday-mackenzie
identifier: File(s): CRM-firstspringday-mackenzie.pdf

"The First Spring Day" [Daniel Steven Crafts]
title: First line of lyrics: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
title: Part of: "Bittersweet Dreams"
subject: genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle
subject: solo: mezzo-soprano
subject: instrumentation: piano|string orchestra
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "The First Spring Day"
description: Place in the larger work: The second song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"
description: Tempo markings: "Largo"; quarter note = 56
description: Performance instructions: "(a setting of three poems by Christina Rossetti) | for mezzo-soprano and piano or string orchestra"
creator: Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 12 July 2017.
source: Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
source: musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts
date: n.d.
rights: This work is protected by copyright. The score appears in Christina Rossetti in Music by kind permission of the copyright holder, composer Daniel Steven Crafts.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 4 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-firstspringday-crafts
identifier: File(s): CRM-firstspringday-crafts.pdf

"Echo" [Daniel Steven Crafts]
title: First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
title: Part of: "Bittersweet Dreams"
subject: genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle
subject: solo: mezzo-soprano
subject: instrumentation: piano|string quartet
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
description: Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"
description: Composition history: This is the first of two different musical settings of Rossetti's poem "Echo" by composer Daniel Steven Crafts. When asked to comment on what motivated him to write two different settings of "Echo," Crafts responded that "Echo" "for "Bittersweet Dreams was written first. Here I wanted to emphasize the almost mystical, otherworldly sense of the words to begin the sequence. Love's Kaleidoscope presents the subject of romance from many historical viewpoints and attitudes, and here I wanted to bring out more of the sense of longing in the poem." (Crafts)
description: Performance instructions: "(a setting of three poems by Christina Rossetti) | for mezzo-soprano and piano or string orchestra"
creator: Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 13 July 2017.
source: Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
source: musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts
date: n.d.
rights: This work is protected by copyright. The score appears in Christina Rossetti in Music by kind permission of the copyright holder, composer Daniel Steven Crafts.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 6 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-echo-crafts-1
identifier: File(s): CRM-echo-crafts-1.pdf

"Cousin Kate" [Daniel Steven Crafts]
title: First line of lyrics: I was a cottage maiden
title: Part of: "Bittersweet Dreams"
subject: genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle
subject: solo: mezzo-soprano
subject: instrumentation: piano|string quartet
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Cousin Kate"
description: Place in the larger work: The third song of three in a song cycle called "Bittersweet Dreams," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Echo"; 2. "The First Spring Day"; 3. "Cousin Kate"
description: Tempo markings: quarter note = 104
description: Performance instructions: "(a setting of three poems by Christina Rossetti) | for mezzo-soprano and piano or string orchestra"
creator: Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 12 July 2017.
source: Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
source: musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts
date: n.d.
rights: This work is protected by copyright. The score appears in Christina Rossetti in Music by kind permission of the copyright holder, composer Daniel Steven Crafts.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 9 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-cousinkate-crafts
identifier: File(s): CRM-cousinkate-crafts.pdf

"Echo" [Daniel Steven Crafts]
title: First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
title: Part of: "Love's Kaleidoscope"
subject: genre: art song (lied)|song|song cycle
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: string quartet|piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: five sharps
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "Echo"
description: Place in the larger work: The seventh song of nine in the song cycle called "Love's Kaleidoscope" which includes 1. "To the Virgins / Upon Julia's Clothes / Chop Cherry" (Robert Herrick) (Tenor); 2. "Matin Song" (Thomas Heywood) (Soprano); 3. "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" (Christopher Marlow) (Tenor); 4. "Love is Enough" (William Morris) (Duet); 5. "Never Love Unless" (Thomas Campion) (Soprano); 6. "Longing" (Matthew Arnold) (Tenor); 7. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti) (Soprano); 8. "Return" (John Wilmot) (Tenor); 9. "Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor" (John Dryden) (Soprano).
description: Composition history: This is the second of two different musical settings of Rossetti's poem "Echo" by composer Daniel Steven Crafts. When asked to comment on what motivated him to write two different settings of "Echo," Crafts responded: "Bittersweet Dreams was written first. Here I wanted to emphasize the almost mystical, otherworldly sense of the words to begin the sequence. Love's Kaleidoscope presents the subject of romance from many historical viewpoints and attitudes, and here I wanted to bring out more of the sense of longing in the poem." (Crafts)
description: Tempo markings: "Sognante"; quarter note = 54
description: Performance instructions: The song cycle is "For Tenor and Soprano | String Orchestra, or Piano reduction"
creator: Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 13 July 2017.
source: Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, Department of English, University of Ottawa
source: musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts
date: n.d.
rights: This work is protected by copyright. The score appears in Christina Rossetti in Music by kind permission of the copyright holder, composer Daniel Steven Crafts.
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 4 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-echo-crafts-2
identifier: File(s): CRM-echo-crafts-2.pdf

"A Birthday Song" [H.T. Burleigh]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song|ballad
subject: solo: mezzo-soprano|baritone
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: three sharps
subject: initial time signature: 2/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Notes about the text: Burleigh substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit."
description: Tempo markings: "Fervently, with joy."
description: Performance instructions: This solo is for mezzo-soprano or baritone.
description: Dedication: "To A. M. Perry"
description: Notes: The second song of three in the song collection called "Three Songs" which includes 1. "If you but knew" ("Translated from the French); 2. "A Birthday Song" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Life" (John Boyle O'Reilly).
creator: Burleigh, H.T. [Henry Thacker]; music (American, 1866-1949)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4209; Ives DM158
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Burleigh, H.T. "A Birthday Song." Three Songs, G. Schirmer, 1898, pp. 3-5. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
publisher: New York: G. Schirmer
date: 1898 [publication]
rights: "Copyright, 1898, by G. Schirmer."
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 3 pages (pp. 3-5)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-burleigh
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-burleigh.pdf

"A Birthday" [Walter J. Lockitt]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song|parlour song
subject: solo: voice
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: two flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Notes about the text: After the first stanza, the line "My love is come to me" is repeated. The entirety of the poem is to be sung twice.
description: Tempo markings: "Andante"
description: Dedication: "To Pascal Needham, Esqre"
description: Notes: A note at the top of the score states "Words by Christina Rossetti (by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd.)" A reviewer for the Musical News notes that Lockitt treats Rossetti's poem in a "simple and lyric manner, with which no fault can be found, as his melody is graceful and expression" (Review of "A Birthday").
creator: Lockitt, Walter J.; music (active 1899)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Ives DM169
source: Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
source: Other data reference(s): Review of "A Birthday," by Walter J. Lockitt. Musical News, 4 Mar. 1899, 233. British Periodicals, https://search.proquest.com/docview/7466437?accountid=14701. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: The British Library, London
publisher: London: Weekes & Co.
date: 1899 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 2 pages (pp. 2-3)
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-lockitt
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-lockitt.pdf

"A Birthday" [Newel Kay Brown]
title: Part of: "A Set of Three"
subject: genre: song|song cycle
subject: solo: soprano
subject: instrumentation: flute|french horn
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Place in the larger work: One of three songs in the song cycle called "A Set of Three," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include "Who has seen the wind?"; "If I were a Queen"; "A Birthday".
description: Performance history: Debut performance of the song cycle: March 1969, Arkadelphia, Arkansas (Gooch and Thatcher 4208). Performance of the song cycle: 9 March 1971, Student Recital Series, Voice Department, North Texas State University, performance by Mary Ella Antahades, soprano, Myrna Brown, flute, Clyde Miller, horn, at the recital hall. ("School of Music Program Book")
creator: Brown, Newel Kay; music (American, born 1932)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4208
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
source: Other data reference(s): "School of Music Program Book 1970-1971, Page 200." UNT Digital Library, University of North Texas, https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc79462/m1/202/?q=november%2022. Accessed 26 Jun 2020.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
date: 1969 [composition]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-brown

"My heart is like a singing bird" [Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song|choral music
subject: chorus: women's SSA chorus
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Tempo markings: "Lively (in 2)"
description: Performance history: Performed by Vassar College Women's Chorus on April 7, 2013 ("Vassar College Women's Chorus").
creator: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario; music (American, born in Italy, 1895-1968)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4210
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Other data reference(s): "Vassar College Women's Chorus." Vassar, http://music.vassar.edu/concerts/webcast/2013/2013-04-07-womens-chorus.html. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario. Four Christina Rossetti Songs. Galaxy Music Corporation, 1952, pp. 2-7. University of Toronto Music Library, Toronto
publisher: New York: Galaxy Music Corp.
date: 1952 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 6 pages (pp. 2-7)
language: English
identifier: Opus: 153
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-castelnuovo-tedesco
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-castelnuovo-tedesco.pdf

"My Love is Come to Me" [Arthur Frackenpohl]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song
subject: solo: mezzo-soprano
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 4/4
subject: origin: United States
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Composition history: A handwritten note on the score indicates that the piece was composed while the composer was in "Potsdam, N.Y."
description: Tempo markings: "Slowly to moderately"; quarter note = 80
description: Dedication: "for Nancy"
creator: Frackenpohl, Arthur; music (American, born 1924)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4214
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
source: Other data reference(s): Record for "A birthday : for mezzo soprano with piano accompaniment." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33921609. Accessed 29 Jan. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Julia E. Crane Memorial Library, State University Teachers College, Potsdam, New York
publisher: New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corp.
date: 1952 Aug 31 [composition]; 1961 [publication]
rights: The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.
format: Format 1: musical score
format: 3 pages
language: English
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-frackenpohl
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-frackenpohl-nopub.pdf

"A birthday" [C. Armstrong Gibbs]
title: First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
subject: genre: song
subject: solo: soprano|tenor
subject: instrumentation: piano
subject: initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
subject: initial time signature: 3/4
subject: origin: United Kingdom
subject: male composer
description: Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
description: Tempo markings: "Estatico"; quarter note = about 90
description: Performance instructions: The solo may be sung by either a soprano or tenor.
description: Notes: The second song of three in the song collection "Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti" which includes 1. "The lamb and the dove"; 2. "A birthday"; 3. "Gone were but the winter."
creator: Gibbs, C. Armstrong [Cecil]; music (English, 1889-1960)
creator: Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
source: In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4215
source: Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
source: Other data reference(s): Record for "Three lyrics by Christina Rossetti. No. 2, A birthday." Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph015114864&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019. Record for "Three lyrics by Christina Rossetti. Op.131,no.1-3. [Songs]. 1. The lamb and the dove. 2. A birthday. 3. Gone were but the winter." Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph019953946&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.
source: Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
source: musical score: Sibley Music Library, Rochester, New York
publisher: London: Oxford University Press
date: 1953 [publication]
rights: "Copyright 1953, by the Oxford University Press, London"
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format: Format 1: musical score
format: 4 pages
language: English
identifier: Opus: 131, number 2
identifier: Record: CRM-birthday-gibbs
identifier: File(s): CRM-birthday-gibbs.pdf