First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
Notes: Included in the song collection "Romantic suite, or, Six chamber songs" which includes 1. "Jenny kissed me" (Leigh Hunt); 2. "I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden" (Percy Bysshe Shelley); 3. "Elegiac pastorale"; 4. "She is not fair to outward view" (Hartley Coleridge); 5. "A birthday" (Christina Georgina Rossetti); 6. "So we'll go no more a-roving" (Lord Byron) (Record for "Romantic suite, or, Six chamber songs : for flute, voice and string quartet").
Duncan, John; music (American, 1913-1975)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Romantic suite, or, Six chamber songs : for flute, voice and string quartet." Indiana University Library, https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/2315643. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
musical score: Indiana University, Bloomington
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Notes: Included in the song collection "Three songs" which includes three settings of Rossetti songs: 1. "The Rainbow"; 2. "A Birthday"; 3. "Song."
Campo, Frank; music (American, born 1927)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Three songs, op. 141 : for soprano & piano on poems by Christina Rossetti." Pennsylvania State University Library, https://cat.libraries.psu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/0?searchdata1=21592758%7BCKEY%7D&searchfield1=GENERAL%5ESUBJECT%5EGENERAL%5E%5E&user_id=WEBSERVER. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
Place in the larger work: A note on the title page says that "this song is extracted from the song cycle, Learning to Howl, for soprano, soprano saxophone (clarinet/bass clarinet), harp and percussion" (Record for "The birthday of my life [music] : for high voice and harp / music by Andrew Ford ; words by Christina Rossetti").
Ford, Andrew; music (Australian, born in England, born 1957)
Other data reference(s): Record for "The birthday of my life [music] : for high voice and harp / music by Andrew Ford; words by Christina Rossetti." National Library of Australia, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2334668. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
Grosvenor Place: Australian Music Centre
Notes about the text: After each stanza, the line "My love is come to me" is repeated. "Purple dues" is substituted for "purple dyes."
Performance instructions: The score notes that the piano accompaniment is "ad lib."
Horton, Lewis Henry; music (American, 1898-1978)
Other data reference(s): United States, Washington, Library of Congress, Copyright Office. Published Music: January-June 1960. Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, vol. 14, part 5, no. 1, 1961, p. 544. Internet Archives, https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3145lib/page/544/mode/2up?q=Christina+Rossetti. Accessed 7 Jul. 2021.
musical score: North Texas State College Library, Denton
1933 [publication] [copyright], 1960 [copyright]
"Copyright MCMXXXIII by M.Witmark & Sons, N.Y."
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: three sharps
Performance instructions: "To be sung with great abandon."
Other data reference(s): Record for "My Love is come to me. Song, the words by C. G. Rossetti." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004529552. Accessed 4 Apr. 2019.
"My Heart is like a singing Bird" [Walter Ruel Cowles]
Cowles, Walter Ruel; music (American, 1881-1968)
Other data reference(s): Record for "My Heart is like a singing Bird. [Song, words by] C. Rossetti, etc." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004285270. Accessed 4 Apr. 2019.
musical score: The British Library, London
"My heart is like a singing bird" [Roberta Stephen]
Part of: "Serenade: suite of songs for voice and guitar"
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Place in the larger work: The first song of three in the song cycle "Serenade: Suite of Songs for Voice and Guitar" which includes 1. "My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "Music when soft Voices Die" (Percy Bysshe Shelley); 3. "Weathers" (Thomas Hardy).
Performance instructions: A line of rhythm is included on the sheet music for the performer(s) to tap on the upper body of the guitar.
Notes: Between the settings of "A Birthday" and "Music when soft Voices Die" there's a section entitled "Vocalise" with a vocal melody but no lyrics.
Stephen, Roberta; music (Canadian, born 1931)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Serenade : suite of songs for voice and guitar." University of Alberta Libraries, https://neos.library.ualberta.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5?user_id=WUAARCHIVE&searchdata1=ocn611069018. Accessed 4 Apr. 2019.
musical score: University of Alberta Library, Edmonton, Alberta
Calgary: Alberta Keys Music Publishing Co.
"© 2003 Alberta Keys Music Publishing co. ltd."
Part of: "Lovesong: a musical entertainment"
instrumentation: piano|flute|oboe|guitar|bass|organ (electric)|timpani|drum set|chimes|vibraphone|bells
Place in the larger work: The complete musical score includes 27 songs but in the version consulted, only 13 were included. This version of "Lovesong" includes 1. "What Is Love?" (Sir Walter Raleigh); 2. "Sophia" (Edwin Dulchin); 3. "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "I Remember" (Thomas Hood); 5. "If Ever Two Were One (To My Dear and Loving Husband)" (Anne Bradstreet); 6. "Song" (Thomas Lodge); 7. "April Child" (Kenneth Pressman); 8. "What Is A Woman Like?" (Anonymous); 9. "Echo" (Anonymous); 10. "A Rondelay" (Peter Anthony Motteaux); 11. "Jenny Kiss'd Me" (Leigh Hunt); 12. "So, We'll Go No More A-Roving" (George Gordon, Lord Byron); 13. "An Epitaph" (Richard Crashaw).
Notes about the text: Valenti substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit," "a bed of silk and down" for "a dais of silk and down" and "leaves of silver fleur-de-lys" for "leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys."
Composition history: A note above the score reads that the lyrics are "adapted by Henry Comor from a poem by Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894)."
Performance instructions: All the percussion instruments (timpani, drum set, chimes, bells, and vibraphone) are to be played by one person.
Performance history: After a smaller run in Toronto, "Lovesong opened Off Broadway at the Top of the Village Gate in New York City on October 7, 1976."
Valenti, Michael; music (American, born 1942)
musical score for piano and voice: University of North Carolina School of the Arts, North Carolina
"© 1976, 1979 by Multimood Music, Inc., A Division of Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. | International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved."
untitled [setting of "A Birthday"] [Christine McCombe]
Place in the larger work: The first song of three in the song cycle "Halcyon" which includes three settings of Rossetti poems: 1. "A Birthday"; 2. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 3. "Three Stages."
Notes about the text: This is a setting of the first stanza of "A Birthday" only. McCombe substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit."
Tempo markings: "Simple, lyrical"; "MM" quarter note = 54
Performance instructions: The part of the song cycle that includes the lyrics of "A Birthday" is to be played "Brightly."
musical score: Australian Music Centre Library, New South Wales
"copyright: Christine Anne McCombe 1994"
untitled [setting of "Luscious and Sorrowful"] [Christine McCombe]
First line of lyrics: Beautiful, Tender, Wasting away for sorrow
Rossetti poem(s): "'Luscious and Sorrowful'"
Place in the larger work: The second song of three in the song cycle "Halcyon" which includes three settings of Rossetti poems: 1. "A Birthday"; 2. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 3. "Three Stages."
Tempo markings: "Espressivo, tenderly"; MM quarter note = 48-52
Performance instructions: The guitar is instructed to sound "luxuriant."
Record: CRM-lusciousandsorrowful-mccombe
untitled [setting of "Three Stages"] [Christine McCombe]
First line of lyrics: The fruitless thought of what I might have been
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in the song cycle "Halcyon" which includes three settings of Rossetti poems: 1. "A Birthday"; 2. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 3. "Three Stages."
Notes about the text: This is a setting of stanzas 10 and 11 only.
Tempo markings: "Meditative"; MM quarter note = 52 approx.; "molto rubato"
Performance instructions: The voice is instructed to sing "restrained."
Composition history: Daubney has provided Christina Rossetti in Music Project with details about the composition history of this piece. "I recalled this - until now unwritten - setting I composed at the keyboard when I was about 16. It was quite impractical to sing as it was in a high-lying C# minor and started on a ridiculous high A! Yesterday I decided to transpose it, write it down with an accompaniment other than that I used with my 16-year old keyboard incorporation of the melody. Here is the result" ("A Birthday"). In another correspondence, Daubney wrote, "Years ago [. . .] I wrote [this song] at the keyboard. It has been in my mind ever since c. 1946 but I had not committed it to paper until my recent association with Mary Arseneau of Ottawa University whose research into settings of Christina Rossetti urged me to write it down – largely as it had stayed in my head all those years. It has now joined c. 12 others I sent her for her archive. I hope you’ll enjoy its youthful character" ("August Greetings").
Daubney, Brian Blyth; music (English, born 1929)
Other data reference(s): Daubney, Brian Blyth. "A Birthday." Received by Mary Arseneau, 3 June 2019. Daubney, Brian Blyth. "August Greetings." Received by Mary Arseneau, 27 July 2019.
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on the website by kind permission of Brian Blyth Daubney.
"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [Henry F. Schrœder]
Composition history: "By permission from Mc Millans' Magazine"
Performance instructions: Piano "ad lib."
Performance history: "Sung by Mr. Henry Leslies Choir"
Schroeder, Henry F.; music (English, active 1866)
In reference to the published works below: Ives DM4
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Other data reference(s): Record for "My Heart Is like a Singing Bird. Part Song ... Words by C. Rossetti." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004641677. Accessed 16 Oct. 2019.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Anna Lewis, University of Ottawa
"In the Bleak Midwinter" [Julian Marshall]
Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("In the bleak mid-winter")
Marshall, Julian; music (British, born 1954)
Other data reference(s): "In the Bleak Midwinter (2015)." Wise Music Classical, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/56419/. Accessed 30 April 2020. "JULIAN MARSHALL: IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER : SATB." Musicroom, https://www.musicroom.com/product/musnov295801/julian-marshall-in-the-bleak-midwinter-arr-satb.aspx?clid=510&tduid=cc63d30749cc5bb55c49cd160bd4e77a&utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicsalesclassical.com%2F+%28GB%29&utm_medium=affiliates. Accessed 30 April 2020.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "JULIAN MARSHALL: IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER : SATB." Musicroom, https://www.musicroom.com/product/musnov295801/julian-marshall-in-the-bleak-midwinter-arr-satb.aspx?clid=510&tduid=cc63d30749cc5bb55c49cd160bd4e77a&utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicsalesclassical.com%2F+%28GB%29&utm_medium=affiliates. Accessed 30 April 2020.
Record: CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-marshall
Rossetti poem(s): "'Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soul'"
Graves, Richard; music (British, 1926-2002)
Other data reference(s): "O Sweet Jesu (1949)." Wise Music Classical, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/59481/. Accessed 30 April 2020. "O Sweet Jesu." Sheetmusicplus, https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/o-sweet-jesu-sheet-music/21378631?ac=1&aff_id=672721#_ga=2.228215645.1989957160.1588282582-657038439.1588282582. Accessed 30 April 2020.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "O Sweet Jesu." Sheetmusicplus, https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/o-sweet-jesu-sheet-music/21378631?ac=1&aff_id=672721#_ga=2.228215645.1989957160.1588282582-657038439.1588282582. Accessed 30 April 2020.
Part of: "Five settings of European poets"
Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in the song cycle "Five settings of European poets," which includes 1. "Ode" (Horace); 2. "Sonnets to Orpheus, #19" (Rainer Maria Rilke); 3. "Le bois amical" (Paul Valéry); 4. "Piazza Navona" (C.G. Belli); 5. "When I am dead" (Christina Rossetti)
Berger, Arthur; music (American, 1912-2003)
Other data reference(s): "Five settings of European poets : for tenor and piano 1979." WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/title/five-settings-of-european-poets-for-tenor-and-piano-1979/oclc/1083312002&referer=brief_results. Accessed 30 April 2020.
New York: Association for the Promotion of New Music
performance time 13 minutes (song cycle)
genre: choral music|sacred music|song|children's music
Notes: From a hymnal called "Little Sacred Songs for Little Singers of the primary department of the Sunday school, and for Kindergartens and the home."
Other data reference(s): "41. Consider the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief." Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/LSSL1892/41. Accessed 1 May 2020.
musical score: Shryock, J.W. "41. Consider the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief." Little Sacred Songs for Little Singers of the primary department of the Sunday school, and for Kindergartens and the home, John Church, 1892, p. 41. Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/hymn/LSSL1892/41. Accessed 1 May 2020.
First line of lyrics: She came in deep repentance
Rossetti poem(s): "Human and Divine Pleading"
Dedication: "to Kimball Wheeler [mezzo-soprano]" (Hawley)
Hawley, William; music (American, born 1950)
Other data reference(s): Hawley, William. "Re: Christina Rossetti in Music inquiry." Received by Mary Arseneau. 21 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
2007 [composition] [copyright] [publication]
"© 2007 William Hawley" This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer William Hawley. To purchase musical scores or to request performance rights, please consult the composer’s website, www.williamhawley.net.
Composition history: A note on the score states that "these songs were all composed in the 1940s, most of them while Morgan was serving during World War II" (Record for "Six songs for voice and piano").
Notes: Included in the 2015 song collection "Six songs for voice and piano," published by PRB Productions, which includes 1. "The daisies" (James Stephens); 2. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Shelley); 3. "My pretty sweet, my darling" (Anonymous); 4. "The everlasting mercy" (John Masefield); 5. "Beauty" (Masefield); 6. "A birthday" (Christina Rossetti).
Morgan, Derek Moore; music (English, emigrated to Australia in 1974, 1915-2007)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Six songs for voice and piano." Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2016564414. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.
musical score: Morgan, Derek Moore. "A birthday." Six songs for voice and piano, PRB Productions, 2015, pp. 18-23. California State University, Long Beach
1940 ca [composition]; 2015 [publication]
"Songs of Love and Longing" [Holly Harris]
First line of lyrics: You are so beautiful
Rossetti poem(s): "Mirage"|"Echo"|"Remember"|"A Birthday"|"Monna Innominata"
Work contains multiple Christina Rossetti texts
Notes about the text: The setting includes adaptations of the following texts: "The Songs of Solomon" (Chapters 1 and 2); "Monna Innominata (titled "The First Day" in Harris' work)," "Remember," "Mirage," "Echo," "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); "Longing" (Matthew Arnold); "Lady Heguri" (Anonymous, Japenese). Harris sets and significantly adapts the second sonnet in "Monna Innominata" (pp. 3-5), the first stanza of "A Birthday (pp. 7-14), and only a few lines from "Echo" (pp. 15-21), "Mirage" (pp. 17-18), and "Remember" (pp. 19-20). From "Echo" Harris adapts the lines "Come to me in the silence of the night" and "Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live." From "Mirage" she adapts the lines "The hope I dreamed of was a dream, / Was but a dream." From "Remember" she adapts the first line, "Remember me when I am gone away." These lines are adapted, repeated, and interwoven among each other by the composer.
Composition history: "Commissioned by The Winnipeg Singers with assistance from the Manitoba Arts Council"
Tempo markings: "Expressively"; quarter note = 112
Harris, Holly; music (Canadian, active since 1999)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (English, 1830-1894)
Harris, Holly; adapted text (Canadian). Arnold, Matthew; text (English, 1822-1888). Anonymous; text (Japanese).
Cataloguer: Arianne Zamin, Sarah Pennington, Katherine Rainville and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
musical score: University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg
First line of lyrics: Come to me in the silence of the night
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in a trilogy called "For a Deam's Sake," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "An End"; 2. "Mirage"; 3. "Echo".
Composition history: "First prize winner in the Equal Voices Category of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors and Associated Publishers Composition Competition 2002."
Tempo markings: "Poco Agitato"; dotted quarter note = 56
Performance instructions: "For Treble Voices and Piano"
Performance history: Premiered at Podium 2002 in Toronto by the National Youth Choir, Lydia Adams, conductor. ("Echo"). Performance on 19 February 2012 by the Grand Valley State University's choral ensemble, "University Arts Chorale", which can be heard on Youtube, uploaded by xfiresong, 17 Nov. 2012, https://youtu.be/QfNPJVllF58.
Recordings: "For a Dream's Sake - III - Echo." Parlez-Moi, performance by Concerto Della Donna, Iwan Edwards, artistic director, Pamela Reimer, piano, Concerto Della Donna, 2011. Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/echo. ("Echo") "Echo." Music for Women's Voices, vol. 7, Performance by The Manitou Singers of St. Olaf College, Sigrid Johnson, conductor, St. Olaf Records, 2011. Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/echo. ("Echo")
Bevan, Allan; music (Canadian, born 1951)
Other data reference(s): "Allan Bevan - List of Works (Selected)." Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/works-list.html. Accessed 15 Apr. 2019. "Echo." Allan Bevan, composer, posted 2 Sept. 2017, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/echo. "Parlez-moi." Discography, Concerto Della Donna, http://www.concertodelladonna.ca/en/discography/index.htm. Accessed 5 May 2020. "Parlez-moi." Apple Music, https://music.apple.com/id/album/parlez-moi/490056623. Accessed 5 May 2020. Record for “For a dream's sake: for treble voices and piano” WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/697636218. Accessed 11 Apr. 2018.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Echo." Cypress Choral Music, https://cypresschoral.com/composers/allan-bevan/echo/. Accessed 5 May 2020.
2000 [composition] [copyright]; 2002 [publication] [copyright]
18 pages; performance time 4 minutes and 25 seconds; complete song cycle 30 pages; performance time 12 minutes
First line of lyrics: The hope I dreamed of was a dream
Place in the larger work: The second song of three in a trilogy called "For a Deam's Sake," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "An End"; 2. "Mirage"; 3. "Echo".
Tempo markings: "Tranquillo"; eighth note = 104
Performance instructions: "For Treble Voices SSAA and Piano." The composer's website specifies 2 Soprano soloists, SSAA and piano ("Allan Bevan - List of Works (Selected)").
Performance history: Performed at the 2007 annual concert of the Folsom Singers, Wei Hsi Hu, conductor, Diana Chou, piano: "'Mirage' by Allan Bevan / Folsom Singers 2007 Annual Concert," YouTube, uploaded by wu ada, 7 Aug. 2009, https://youtu.be/8nNeTO3fN4g.
Recordings: "For a Dream's Sake - II - Mirage." Parlez-Moi, performance by Concerto Della Donna, Iwan Edwards, artistic director, Pamela Reimer, piano, Concerto Della Donna, 2011. Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/mirage. ("Echo")
Other data reference(s): "Allan Bevan - List of Works (Selected)." Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/works-list.html. Accessed 15 Apr. 2019. "Mirage." Allan Bevan, composer, posted 10 Aug. 2015, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/mirage. "Parlez-moi." Discography, Concerto Della Donna, http://www.concertodelladonna.ca/en/discography/index.htm. Accessed 5 May 2020. "Parlez-moi." Apple Music, https://music.apple.com/id/album/parlez-moi/490056623. Accessed 5 May 2020. Record for “For a dream's sake: for treble voices and piano” WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/697636218. Accessed 11 Apr. 2018.
Cataloguer: Arianne Zamin and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Mirage." Cypress Choral Music, https://cypresschoral.com/composers/allan-bevan/mirage/. Accessed 5 May 2020.
2000 [composition] [copyright]; 2003 [publication] [copyright]
6 pages; performance time 3 minutes and 30 seconds; complete song cycle 30 pages; performance time 12 minutes
First line of lyrics: Love, strong as Death, is dead
Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a trilogy called "For a Deam's Sake," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "An End"; 2. "Mirage"; 3. "Echo".
Tempo markings: "Andante misterioso"; quarter note = 84
Performance instructions: "For Treble Voices SSAA and Piano"
Performance history: "Concerto Della Donna has performed this piece a number of times (listen to their beautiful recording to the right) and it has also been sung by the Manitou Singers of St. Olaf College, Sigrid Johnson, conductor" ("An End")
Recordings: "For a Dream's Sake - I - An End." Parlez-Moi, performance by Concerto Della Donna, Iwan Edwards, artistic director, Pamela Reimer, piano, Concerto Della Donna, 2011. Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/an-end. ("An End")
Other data reference(s): "Allan Bevan - List of Works (Selected)." Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/works-list.html. Accessed 5 May 2020. "An End." Allan Bevan, composer, posted 13 Aug. 2015, http://www.allanbevan.ca/listen/an-end. "Parlez-moi." Discography, Concerto Della Donna, http://www.concertodelladonna.ca/en/discography/index.htm. Accessed 5 May 2020. "Parlez-moi." Apple Music, https://music.apple.com/id/album/parlez-moi/490056623. Accessed 5 May 2020. Record for “For a dream's sake: for treble voices and piano” WorldCat, www.worldcat.org/oclc/697636218. Accessed 11 Apr. 2018.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "An End." Cypress Choral Music, https://cypresschoral.com/composers/allan-bevan/an-end/. Accessed 5 May 2020.
9 pages; performance time 4 minutes; complete song cycle 30 pages; performance time 12 minutes
First line of lyrics: Love came down at Christmas
genre: choral music|Christmas music|song|song cycle|sacred music
Place in the larger work: First song of three in a song cycle called "Carol We and Worship We," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Love Came Down"; 2. "Christmas Hath a Darkness"; 3. "Christmas Day"
Composition history: Commissioned by Laurier Fagnan and Da Camera Singers, Edmonton ("Love came down at Christmas for SSATB chorus and piano")
Performance history: Debut performance on Saturday, 11 Dec. 1999, at All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, by Da Camera Singers in a concert called "Music of Mother and Child".
Other data reference(s): "Allan Bevan - List of Works (Selected)." Allan Bevan, composer, http://www.allanbevan.ca/works-list.html. Accessed 5 May 2020. "Love came down at Christmas for SSATB chorus and piano." Canadian Music Centre, http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/29281. Accessed 5 May 2020. "Gift-giving begins with local musicians: Christmas, classical CDs aplenty to enjoy this holiday season: [Final Edition]." Edmonton Journal, 4 Dec. 1999, p. C6. Canadian Major Dailies, https://search-proquest-com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/docview/252763059?accountid=14701.
First line of lyrics: A baby is a harmless thing
genre: choral music|Christmas music|song|song cycle
Place in the larger work: Third song of three in a song cycle called "Carol We and Worship We," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Love Came Down"; 2. "Christmas Hath a Darkness"; 3. "Christmas Day"