"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [Sean Salamon]
other version 1 - instrumentation: a cappella
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: one sharp
Composition history: "The piece was commissioned for Ping by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music to celebrate the 93rd birthday of alumna and benefactor Virginia Schatz" ("Salamon: My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird").
Tempo markings: "Lively, with grace"; quarter note = 122
Performance history: First performed in April 2014 by Ping, including Chloe Holgate, Adrienne Lotto, Garrett Euker, and Sean Salamon, live at "Now Is the Month of Pinging" ("Salamon: My Heart is Like a Singing Bird").
Recordings: "My Heart is Like a Singing Bird." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Ping, 2014. SoundCloud, https://soundcloud.com/sean-michael-salamon/my-heart-is-like-a-singing-bird-live. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Other data reference(s): Ping Voices. "Salamon: My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird." YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x92akPjtqc, 21 Feb. 2014. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019. Salamon, Sean. "List of Works." Seansalamon.com, https://seansalamon.com/works/. Acccessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
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First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird
genre: Scottish ballad|choral music|song
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: two flats
Notes about the text: Starting in bar 48, the text of Robert Burns' poem "A Red, Red Rose" is sung in harmony with Rossetti's poem "A Birthday."
Composition history: "Like a Singing Bird was commissioned collaboratively through Chorus American's 2007 30th Anniversary Conference and Auction" by 20 American choruses, as listed on the score.
Performance instructions: The score states that the music is to be played "with a gospel fervour." In a composer's note included with the sheet music, Chilcott describes the choreography that's meant to accompany the piece: "I imagined this piece to include two dancers, each representing one of the two different melodies that feature in the song. The first dancer could appear at the opening of the piece, and the second at bar 47, just before the Scottish melody. I imagined the dancing to be slow-moving, simple, and complementary."
Chilcott, Bob; music (English, born 1955)
Burns, Robert; text (Scottish, 1759-1796)
Other data reference(s): "Like a Singing Bird." JW Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/10190218.item#/submit. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019. "Like a Singing Bird." Oxford University Press, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/like-a-singing-bird-9780193372320?cc=us&lang=en&#. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019.
musical score: Royal College of Music, London
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Like a Singing Bird." JW Pepper, https://www.jwpepper.com/10190218.item#/submit. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019.
10 pages; Other version 1 16 pages; performance time 4 minutes
Composition history: "'A Birthday' was written for a tenor in Louisiana [. . .] The music almost takes a back-seat to the text. I'd like the text to be easily understood by the audience/listener without the singer having to work too hard. I choose poetry that has a rhythm naturally contained in them, and setting these poems to music that only helps the poetry. Rossetti is lyrical, poignant, not a lot of fat in her poetry, expressive and almost begs to be sung - she's perfect for setting to music." (Weiss)
Performance history: "'A Birthday' was sung at the Ashlawn Highland Festival in Virginia, Staatstheater Kassel (Germany), recitals in Minnesota, Texas, Toronto, Montreal, Moscow, to name a few. This is probably my most popular song" (Weiss).
Recordings: "A Birthday." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Nicholas Laroche, baritone, and Aaron Franklin, piano, 2012. https://soundcloud.com/aafranklin/a-birthday. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.
Weiss, Joel; music (American, born 1970)
Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html
Other data reference(s): Weiss, Joel. Personal interview. 22 Jan. 2017.
musical score: score provided compliments of the composer
This score is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The score appears on this website by kind permission of composer Joel Weiss.
Place in the larger work: The second song of 11 in the song cycle titled "Women's Voices" which includes 1. “Now let no charitable hope” (Elinor Wylie); 2. “A birthday” (Christina Rossetti); 3. “To my dear and loving husband (Anne Bradstreet); 4. “To the ladies” (Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh); 5. “If ever hapless woman had a cause” (Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, née Sidney); 6. “We never said farewell” (Mary Coleridge); 7. “The stranger” (Adrienne Rich); 8. “What inn is this” (Emily Dickinson); 9. “Defiled is my name” (Anne Boleyn); 10. “Electrocution” (Lola Ridge); 11. “Smile, Death” (Charlotte Mew)
Composition history: Composed "13-17 Jan. 1976."
Tempo markings: "Allegro grazioso - Brisk"; quarter note = 160
Other data reference(s): "Women's Voices." Song of America, https://songofamerica.net/song/womens-voices/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019. Carman, Judith E. "Women's Voices." Art Song in the United States, 1759-2011: An Annotated Bibliography, fourth edition, Scarecrow Press Inc, 2013, p. 391, no. 2265.
musical score: Peter Turkstra Library, Redeemer University College
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Women's Voices - soprano & piano." Boosey & Hawkes, http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Rorem-Ned-Women-s-Voices-soprano-piano/597112. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
"© Copyright 1979 by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. Copyright for all countries. All rights reserved."
3 pages; complete song cycle performance time 22 minutes
"My heart is like a singing bird" [Miriam Gideon]
instrumentation: flute|oboe|vibraphone|violin|cello
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
Place in the larger work: The second song of three in the song cycle called "Wing'd Hour" which includes 1. "Silent noon" (Dante Gabriel Rossetti); 2. "My heart is like a singing bird" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Autumn" (Walter de la Mare).
Tempo markings: "Fast, joyously"; quarter note = 60
Notes: The three songs in the song cycle are preceded by a one-page instrumental prelude.
Gideon, Miriam; music (American, 1906-1996)
Other data reference(s): Record for "Wing'd hour : a song cycle : high voice, flute, oboe, vibraphone, violin and violoncello / Miriam Gideon ; poems by Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walter de la Mare." Western University Libraries, http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/record=b1966058~S20. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019. Record for "Wing'd hour : a song cycle on poems of Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter de la Mare for high voice, flute, oboe, vibraphone, violin, cello." University of Toronto Libraries, http://go.utlib.ca/cat/4556354. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.
musical score: University of Toronto Music Library, Toronto
5 pages (pp. 7-11); performance time 10 minutes
"My Heart is like a Singing Bird" [Richard Faith]
Notes about the text: Faith makes a few small textual changes; he substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit" and "cloves" for "doves."
Composition history: "The set of songs, entitled Christina Rossetti Lyrics, were commissioned by 1991 NATSAA winners Julie Simson and Gary Arvin." (Wieck, p. 43) The set includes 1. "Spring Quiet"; 2. "Echo"; 3. "My Heart is like a Singing Bird".
Tempo markings: "Allegro vivace"; dotted quarter note = c. 86
Recordings: "Echo." Remember Me, Songs by Richard Faith, performance by Julie Simson, mezzo-soprano and Richard Faith, piano, recorded at Studio A, Music Technology Center, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO., William Lavonis, 2000. YouTube, uploaded by Various Artists - Topic, CDBaby, 13 Apr. 2016, https://youtu.be/bAZda3317H0.
Dedication: "To Julie Simson and Gary Arvin"
Faith, Richard Bruce; music (American, born 1926)
Other data reference(s): "Richard Faith." Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Faith. Accessed 16 Apr. 2020. Record for "The songs of Richard Faith : for voice and piano." University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910006418802121. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019. Wieck, Julie Anne. The songs of Richard Faith: 1990-1995. 1997. The University of Nebraska, D.M.A. dissertation. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: Faith, Richard. The songs of Richard Faith : for voice and piano. Volume 1, Geneseo, N.Y.: Leyerle Publications, 1993, pp. 95-99. The British Library, London.
5 pages; performance time 2 minutes 13 seconds
Composition history: "Commissioned by the Musicians' Benevolent Fund in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong" "Byrchmore was commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund to write the five-minute anthem for the 2004 Saint Cecilia Day Service at Westminster Abbey" ("Birthday Honours" 2).
Tempo markings: quarter note = c. 52; "on the slow side but with fluidity"
Performance history: "First performed at the Festival of Saint Cecilia Service at Westminster Abbey on the 24th November 2004 by the combined choirs of Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral conducted by James O'Donnell."
Notes: "Winner of the Liturgical Category in the 2005 British Composer Awards, presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with BBC Radio 3" ("Birthday Honours" 2).
Byrchmore, Ruth; music (English, born 1966)
Other data reference(s): “Birthday Honours.” Choir & Organ, vol. 14, no. 2, 2006, p. 2. EBSCO Host, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=19744749&site=ehost-live. Accessed 25 Jan. 2019. Record for "A birthday." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316734377. Accessed 25 Apr. 2020.
musical score: "A Birthday." Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/lti/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2379424. Accessed 25 Apr. 2020.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A Birthday." Alexander Street, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/lti/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cscore%7C2379424. Accessed 25 Apr. 2020. This source maybe restricted except to subscribing institutions or individuals.
"© Copyright 2006 Novello & Company Ltd."
"My heart is like a singing bird: A Birthday" [Karl Young]
Young, Karl; music (American, 1879-1943)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4236
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Other data reference(s): Record for "A Birthday : My heart is like a singing bird." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01005067544. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.
musical score: The British Library, London.
"Copyright 1937 by Galaxy Music Corporation"
other version 1 - instrumentation: orchestra
Recordings: "Victor matrix B-14232. A birthday / Florence Hinkle." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Florence Hinkle, soprano. Discography of American Historical Recordings, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200014497/B-14232-A_birthday. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.
Dedication: "To Mrs. Corrine Rider-Kelsey"
Notes: Low voice in A flat; also available for high voice in D flat.
Woodman, R. Huntington [Raymond Huntington]; music (American, 1861-1943)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4235
Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
Musical score: State University of New York, https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/64628/SMUS%20249.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
Notes about the text: Wood replaces "vair" with "rare."
Performance instructions: For solo voice or unison choir.
Dedication: "To the Mac Robertson Girls' High School - 1949"
Wood, Robin; music (Australian, born 1911)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4234
Other data reference(s): Pleskun, Stephen. A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions. Vol. 1, Xlibris, 2012.
musical score: National Library of Australia, Parkes
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Wood: Birthday, A." Presto Sheet Music, https://www.prestomusic.com/sheet-music/products/7345512--wood-birthday-a. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.
instrumentation: violin|viola|cello|double bass|string orchestra
other version 1 - solo: baritone|mezzo-soprano
other version 2 - instrumentation: piano
Place in the larger work: The third song of six in the song cycle "Six English Lyrics" which includes 1. "Go, lovely Rose" (Edmund Waller); 2. "Crossing the Bar" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson); 3. "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 4. "Sweet and Low" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson); 5. "Jenny kiss'd me" (Leigh Hunt); 6. "When I am dead" (Christina Rossetti).
Performance instructions: A version of this may be sung by either mezzo-soprano or baritone (Other version 1).
Dedication: "for Nancy Evans" [song cycle]
Williamson, Malcolm; music (Australian, 1931-2003)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4233
musical score: University of Toronto Library, Toronto
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "A BIRTHDAY SHEET MUSIC BY MALCOLM WILLIAMSON." Sheet Music Now, https://www.sheetmusicnow.com/products/a-birthday-score-p333586. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.
"Copyright 1967/1969 Josef Weinberger Ltd."
4 (pp. 11-14); performance time 15 minutes (song cycle)
title unknown [setting of "A Birthday] [George English]
English, George Selwyn; music (Australian, 1912-1980)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4213
"My heart is like a singing bird" [Charles Spross]
Spross, Charles; music (American, 1874-1961)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4231
First line of lyrics: Where sunless rivers weep
Performance history: "First performance, London, Aeolian Hall, 31 October 1905, by Gervase Elwes (tenor) and Frederick B. Kiddle (pianoforte)" (Kennedy, p. 29)
Recordings: "Echo." Silent Noon: Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Ruth Golden, soprano and Levering Rothfuss, piano, recorded in April 1992 at the Recital Hall, Westbury, N.Y : Koch International Classics, 1993. "Dreamland." Kissing her Hair: Twenty Early Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Iain Burnside, piano and Sarah Fox, soprano, Albion Records, 2008.
Notes: In key of D-flat major. "Whereabouts of MS, British Library, Copy (59796)" (Kennedy, p. 29)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph; music (English, 1872-1958)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4354
Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 29. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846. Pearson, Jonathan and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Digital Issues). "Discography." The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, https://rvwsociety.com/discography/. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Virginia Ouimet and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: “Dreamland (Vaughan Williams, Ralph).” IMSP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Dreamland_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph). Accessed 31 Oct. 2018.
1898? [composition]; 1905 [performance]; 1906 [publication] [copyright]
File(s): CRM-dreamland-vaughanwilliams.pdf
First line of lyrics: Some are laughing, some are weeping
Performance instructions: The version for SSA trio with orchestral accompaniment includes the following instruments: 2 flutes (1 opt), 2 oboes (1 opt.), 2 clarinets (1 opt.), 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets (opt.), timpani (opt.), strings. (Kennedy, p. 18)
Performance history: "First performance, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, at the East Lincolnshire Musical Festival on 27 April 1903, as a test-piece. The festival was organized by Mrs. Massingberd, of Gunby Hall, whose choir, Gunby, were first in their class with this trio." (Kennedy, p. 18) A performance with orchestral accompaniment "with strings only was given by Penshurst Vocal and Instrumental Society, 30 December 1903" (Kennedy, p. 18)
Recordings: "Sound Sleep." A London Symphony and Other Works. Performance by Elizabeth Watts, soprano, Mary Bevan, soprano, Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano and the BBC Symphony Olrchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins, Hyperion, 2016. "Sound Sleep." Earth & Sky. Performance by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, conducted by William Vann, piano, recorded at St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London, Albion Records, 2018.
Dedication: "To Mrs. Massingberd" [wife of Stephen Massingberd (Kennedy, p. 18)]
Notes: In E flat major. Kennedy states, "Tonic solfa edition also published, Novello TS series, no. 1489, in April 1906. Version with orchestral accompaniment published by Novello. Material available on hire. Instrumentation, 2 flutes (1 opt), 2 oboes (1 opt.), 2 clarinets (1 opt.), 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets (opt.), timpani (opt.), strings. Whereabouts of MS. Score dated 7 October 1903, in British Museum (50436), Performance of this version with strings only was given by Penshurst Vocal and Instrumental Society, 30 December 1903" (p. 18).
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4804
Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 18. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846. Pearson, Jonathan and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Digital Issues). "Discography." The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, https://rvwsociety.com/discography/. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: Alexander Street, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.
London: Novello and Company, Limited; New York: Novello, Ewer & Co.
1903 [composition] [publication] [copyright]
"Copyright, 1903, by Novello and Company, Limited."
9 pages; performance time 5 minutes and 25 seconds
File(s): CRM-soundsleep-vaughanwilliams.pdf
"If I were a Queen" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
First line of lyrics: If I were a queen, what would I do?
Performance history: "First performance., Exerter, 16 April 1903, by A. Foxton Ferguson (baritone) accompanied by a Miss Wood. First London performance untraced" (Kennedy, p. 16)
Recordings: "If I Were a Queen." Silent Noon: Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Ruth Golden, soprano and Levering Rothfuss, piano, recorded in April 1992 at the Recital Hall, Westbury, N.Y : Koch International Classics, 1993. "If I Were a Queen." Kissing her Hair: Twenty Early Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Iain Burnside, piano, Sarah Fox, soprano and Andrew Staples, tenor, Albion Records, 2008.
Notes: In E major. Published in "The Vocalist", vol. 1, no. 8 (November 1902). Kennedy states that it was reissued with "Boy Johnny" in 1905 by the Vocalist in G major (p. 29) and again in 1914 by Boosey & Co. Ltd., London and New York, in E major (p. 74).
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4492
Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 16, 29, 74. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846. Pearson, Jonathan and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Digital Issues). "Discography." The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, https://rvwsociety.com/discography/. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.
Musical score: Scanned by Judy Watling at the University of Edinburgh Library
London: the Vocalist Co. Ltd.; London and New York: Boosey & Co. Ltd
1902 [publication]; 1905 [publication]; 1914 [publication] [copyright]
Record: CRM-ifiwereaqueen-vaughanwilliams
File(s): CRM-ifiwereaqueen-vaughanwilliams.pdf
Tempo markings: "Allegretto"; quarter note = 104
Huhn, Bruno Siegfried; music (British, moved in 1891 to and died in United States, 1871-1950)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4378
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score in D: "Echo." Digital Media Repository, Ball State University Libraries, https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/ShtMus/id/6357. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020.
This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Echo." Digital Media Repository, Ball State University Libraries, https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/ShtMus/id/6357. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020.
Boston: The Boston Music Company; New York: G. Schirmer; London: Winthrop Rogers, Ltd.
"Copyright, 1919, by The Boston Music Co."
First line of lyrics: Earth lie heavily upon her eyes
instrumentation: a cappella|piano (for rehearsal only)
Tempo markings: "Adante sostenuto"; quarter note = 58
Performance instructions: "For Unaccompanied Mixed Chorus (SSATB)"
Performance history: "First performance. St. James's Hall, London, 14 May 1902. Magpie Madrigal Society conducted by Lionel Benson." (Kennedy, p. 15)
Recordings: "Rest." Songs and Elegies. Performance by Quink vocal ensemble (Machteld van Woerden, soprano, Paula de Wit, soprano, Corrie Pronk, alto, Harry van Berne, tenor, Kees-Jan de Koning, bass), recorded at NH Church, Vreeland, Netherlands, Challenge Classics, 1987, 1993, 2011. "Rest." My Spirit Sang All Day. Performance by the Kings Singers, Jeremy Jackman & Alastair Hume, countertenors, Robert Chilcott, tenor, Anthony Holt & Simon Carrington, baritones, Colin Mason, bass, EMI Digital, 1988. "Rest." Vaughan Williams: Over hill, over dale. Performance by the Holst Singers, conducted by Stephen Layton, Hyperion, 1995. "Rest." Where Hope is Shining [Songs for mixed chorus by Ralph Vaughan Williams]. Performance by the Joyful Company of Singers, conducted by Peter Broadbent, Albion Records, 2008. "Rest." Silence and Music. Performance by the Gabrieli Consort, conducted by Paul McCreesh, Signum Classics, Winged Lion, 2017. "Rest." Like to the Lark. Performance by the Swedish Chamber Choir, conducted by Simon Phipps, recorded at Årstads Kyrka, Heberg, Sweden, Chandos, 2019.
Dedication: "To Lionel Benson, Esq. & the members of the Magpie Madrigal Society." (Kennedy, p. 15)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4705
Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 15. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846. Pearson, Jonathan and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Digital Issues). "Discography." The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, https://rvwsociety.com/discography/. Accessed 10 Apr. 2020.
Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: University of Ottawa Library, Ottawa.
London: J. Laudy and Co.; London: Bosworth & Co. Ltd (reissue); New York: Galaxy Music Corporation (1970)
1902 [composition] [publication]; 1904-1905? [publication]; 1970 [publication]
7 pages; performance time ca. 3-4 minutes
First line of lyrics: If you'll busk you as a bride
Performance history: "First performance, Oxford, during Commemoration Week, 1902. First performance in London, St James's Hall, 22 April 1903, by Francis Harford (bass) and Ernest Walker (pianoforte)." (Kennedy, p. 16)
Recordings: "Boy Johnny." Kissing her Hair: Twenty Early Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance by Iain Burnside, piano and Roderick Williams, baritone, Albion Records, 2008.
Dedication: "To J. Campbell McInnes, Esq."
Notes: In E minor. Published in "The Vocalist", vol. 1, no. 6 (September 1902). Kennedy states that it was reissued with "If I Were a Queen" in 1905 by the Vocalist in F sharp modal minor (p. 29), and again in 1914 by Boosey & Co. Ltd., London and New York, in E modal minor (p. 74).
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4252
Cataloguer: Melissa Poon and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Boy_Johnny_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph). Accessed 1 Dec. 2018.
London: the Vocalist Co. Ltd.; London and New York: Boosey & Co. Ltd.
1902 [publication]; 1905 [publication]; 1914 [publication] [copyright]; 1942 [copyright renewal]
"© Copyright 1914 by Boosey & Co.; Renewed 1942. Copyright for all countries. All rights reserved."
File(s): CRM-boyjohnny-vaughanwilliams.pdf
"A birthday / Ein Geburtstag" [Albert Mallinson]
First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird / Mein Herz ist wie ein Wonnetraum
Notes about the text: After the complete text of the poem is sung, the lines "My heart is like a singing bird / because my love is come to me" are added at the end of the song.
Notes: Included in the song collection called "Christina Rossetti's Songs" which includes 1. "What Comes?"; 2. "A Birthday"; 3. "Pastime"; 4. "There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"; 5. "Boy Johnny"; 6. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 7. "Valentine"; 8. "The Sunrise Wakes the Lark to Sing"; 9. "The Way of the World"; 10. "The Winter of My Year."
Mallinson, Albert; music (English, 1870-1946)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4223
musical score: Royal Academy of Music Library, London
Leipzig: Wilhelm Hansen, Musik-Forlag; Oakville: The Frederick Harris Music Co. Ltd.
1900 [composition]; 1901 [publication] [copyright]
"Symphonic Rhapsody" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
Composition history: The programme note from the Bournemouth performance states that this work was inspired by Rossetti's poem “Echo” and includes a quotation of the first stanza of that poem (Kennedy, pp. 21-22). Kennedy comments that the "Symphonic Rhapsody" was “complementary to the Rossetti songs and probably summed up this period of the composer’s development” (p. 22). In a 1903 letter to Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst writes of copying the rhapsody parts (Letter XI in "Heirs and Rebels," p. 19) (cited in Kennedy, p. 22). Kennedy notes that the composition remains unpublished and that the manuscript was destroyed (p. 21).
Performance history: "First performance. Bournemouth, Winter Gardens, 7 March 1904, Municipal Orchestra conducted by Dan Godfrey" (Kennedy, p. 21).
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4386
Other data reference(s): Kennedy, Michael. A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 21-22. Scholars Portal, https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/uri/ebooks/ebooks0/oxford/2009-11-30/3/0198165846.
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, Roxanne Lafleur and Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [C.H.H. Parry]
Notes about the text: Exchanges "halcyon sea" for "purple sea" and "silk and down" for ""purple gold."
Recordings: Parry, Hubert, et al. "My Heart is Like a Singing Bird." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Sarah Fox, soprano, Andrew West, piano. 12 Sets of English Lyrics, vol. 3, SOMM Recordings, 2018. Spotify, 5AfybP1Fvc1tVRWLu3MKGn. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Parry, C. Hubert H. [Charles Hubert Hastings], Sir; music (English, 1848-1918)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4227
"Copyright, 1918, by Novello & Company, Limited. Copyright renewed 1946."
Somers-Cocks, John P. [Patrick]; music (English, 1907-1995)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4384
Other data reference(s): "Echo." British Music Collection, https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/echo-4. Accessed 9 Apr. 2020. "John Somers-Cocks (1907-1995)." Bardic Edition, Music Publishers, https://www.bardic-music.com/John%20Somers-Cocks.html. Accessed 9 Apr. 2020. Record for "Echo." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877789526. Accessed 9 Apr. 2020.
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: two sharps
Dedication: "For Charles Tilson Chowne."
Scott, Cyril; music (English, 1879-1970)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4229
musical score: University of Rochester Library, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/23369. Accessed 8 Jan. 2017.
London: Elkin & Co.; New York: G. Ricordi & Co.
Sacco, P. [Patrick] Peter; music (American, 1928-2000)
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4383
Cataloguer: Diana Bishara, University of Ottawa