"The First Spring Day" [A.C. Mackenzie]

"The First Spring Day" [A.C. Mackenzie]

First line of lyrics: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet

Part of: "Three Songs"

Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell, Sir; music (Scottish, 1847-1935)

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

1878 [publication]

London and New York: Novello, Ewer and Co.

genre: song|art song (lied)|song cycle

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "The First Spring Day"

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".

Tempo markings: "Allegro moderato"

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).

Format 1: musical score

5 pages (pp. 61-66)

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM33; Gooch and Thatcher 4419

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

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 “Three songs, op. 17.” WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646695297. Accessed 19 Oct. 2018.

Cataloguer: Abbey Jurgeneit and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

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.

Opus: 17, number 1

Record: CRM-firstspringday-mackenzie

File(s): CRM-firstspringday-mackenzie.pdf

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