"What Can I Give Him" [arr. Grace Wilbur Conant, Frances Weld Danielson, music unknown composer]

"What Can I Give Him" [arr. Grace Wilbur Conant, Frances Weld Danielson, music unknown composer]

First line of lyrics: What can I give him

Unknown; music (Danish folk song)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Conant, Grace Wilbur; arrangement (American, 1858-1948). Danielson, Frances Weld; arrangement (American, 1872-1948)

1905 [publication] [copyright]; 1914 [publication]; 1915 [publication] [copyright]

Boston, Chicago: The Pilgrim Press; Philadelphia: The Westminster Press

genre: children's music|carol|Christmas music|song|sacred music|hymn

solo: voice

chorus: congregational singing|children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

female arranger

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("In the bleak mid-winter")

Notes about the text: This song is a setting of the last stanza of the poem only.

Notes: “Adapted from a Danish Folk-song." From a collection called "Songs For Little People: For Use in the Sunday-School, the Kindergarten, and the Home," first published in 1905. The collection includes an introduction by Lucy Wheelock and a foreword by editors Frances Weld Danielson and Grace Wilbur Conant. A new edition of the collection was published 10 years later, which included the addition of thirty-six new and old songs.

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4289

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Conant, Grace Wilbur. "What Can I Give Him." Songs for little people: For use in the Sunday-School, the Kindergarten, and the Home, edited by Frances Weld Danielson and Grace Wilbur Conant, 2nd ed., Pilgrim Press, 1915, p. 45, no. 59. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/songspe00dani. Accessed 12 April 2019.

Record: CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-conant-danielson-unknown

File(s): CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-conant-danielson-unknown.jpg

"Copyright, 1905, by Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society"

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