"My heart is like a singing bird" [Alan Gray]

"My heart is like a singing bird" [Alan Gray]

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

Gray, Alan; music (English, 1855-1935)

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

1911 [publication]

London: Stainer & Bell; Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel; Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Tempo markings: "Allegretto e leggiero"

Dedication: "To Faith"

Notes: Published as part of the song collection "Three songs" which includes 1. "My heart is like a singing bird" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "The song of a bird in May" (Walter Headlam); 3. "The joy of life" (M. F. Vickers).

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 3-5)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4217

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

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Gray, Alan. "My heart is like a singing bird." Three Songs, Stainer & Bell, 1911, pp. 3-5. The British Library, London

Record: CRM-birthday-gray

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

"Copyright in U.S.A. 1911 by Stainer & Bell Ltd."

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