"A Birthday Song" [H.T. Burleigh]

"A Birthday Song" [H.T. Burleigh]

First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird

Burleigh, H.T. [Henry Thacker]; music (American, 1866-1949)

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

1898 [publication]

New York: G. Schirmer

genre: song|ballad

solo: mezzo-soprano|baritone

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three sharps

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Notes about the text: Burleigh substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit."

Tempo markings: "Fervently, with joy."

Performance instructions: This solo is for mezzo-soprano or baritone.

Dedication: "To A. M. Perry"

Notes: The second song of three in the song collection called "Three Songs" which includes 1. "If you but knew" ("Translated from the French); 2. "A Birthday Song" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Life" (John Boyle O'Reilly).

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 3-5)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4209; Ives DM158

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

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

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Burleigh, H.T. "A Birthday Song." Three Songs, G. Schirmer, 1898, pp. 3-5. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Record: CRM-birthday-burleigh

File(s): CRM-birthday-burleigh.pdf

"Copyright, 1898, by G. Schirmer."

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