"The First Spring Day" [Daniel Steven Crafts]

"The First Spring Day" [Daniel Steven Crafts]

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

Part of: "Bittersweet Dreams"

Crafts, Daniel Steven; music (American, born 1949)

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

n.d.

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

solo: mezzo-soprano

instrumentation: piano|string orchestra

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

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

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"

Tempo markings: "Largo"; quarter note = 56

Performance instructions: "(a setting of three poems by Christina Rossetti) | for mezzo-soprano and piano or string orchestra"

Format 1: musical score

4 pages

Other data reference(s): Crafts, Daniel Steven. "Re: Goblin Market." Received by Mary Arseneau. 12 July 2017.

Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa

musical score with piano: Daniel Steven Crafts

Record: CRM-firstspringday-crafts

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

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.

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