"A birthday" [Cyril Bertram Lander]

"A birthday" [Cyril Bertram Lander]

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

Part of: "Flores de Mi Primavera"

Lander, Cyril Bertram; music (English, active in New Zealand, 1904-1989)

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

1950 ca [composition]; 1957 [copyright]

genre: song|song cycle

solo: high voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Place in the larger work: The seventh song of 35 in the song cycle called "Flores de Mi Primavera" which includes settings of the following poems in their original languages: 1. "The moon" (Percy Shelley); 2. "Annabel Lee" (Edgar Allan Poe); 3. "Chanson d'Automne" (Paul Verlaine); 4. "Serenade" (Paul Verlaine); 5. "Am Rhein, am heiligen Strome . . ." (Heinrich Heine); 6. "Sonnet, Quand vous serez bien vieille" (Pierre de Ronsard); 7. "A birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 8. "El Amante Despechado" (Anonimo); 9. "There is a lady sweet and kind" (Anonymous); 10. "Das Muhlrad" (unknown); 11. "Love's secret" (William Blake); 12. "Du hast Diamanten und Perlen (Heimkehr nr. 62)" (Heinrich Heine); 13. "Tiefe Wasser" (unknown); 14. "Du bist wie eine Blume" (Heinrich Heine); 15. "To Electra" (Robert Herrick); 16. "Requiem" (Robert Louis Stevenson); 17. "The Listeners" (Walter de la Mare); 18. "Il pleure dans mon coeur" (Paul Verlaine); 19. "Ariel's song" (William Shakespeare); 20. "Song" (Laurence Housman); 21. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Shelley); 22. "A red, red rose" (Robert Burns); 23. "Helen of Kirconnell" (Anonymous); 24. "The call" (Anonymous); 25. "The green singer" (John Shaw Neilson); 26. "Song, She's somewhere" (Richard Le Gallienne); 27. "Love's coming" (John Shaw Neilson); 28. "The world's wanderers" (Percy Shelley); 29. "Wo?" (Heinrich Heine); 30. "Beauty bathing" (Anthony Munday); 31. "Stanzas for music" (Lord Byron); 32. "A child's grace" (Robert Herrick); 33. "Bist du wirklich mir so feindlich? (Heimkehr nr. 76)" (Heinrich Heine); 34. "Edward, Edward!" (Anonymous); 35. "Why?" (Bliss Carman).

Tempo markings: "Legato"

Format 1: musical score

2 pages (pp. 7a-7b)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4218

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

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): Record for "Cyril Bertram Lander." The National Archives, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/94953fa1-65ac-44e3-95b7-9cc86d948af2. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Record for "Flores de Mi Primavera : Songs." Worldcat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/497916034. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Record for "Lander, Cyril Bertram : Flores de mi primavera [for voice and piano]." National Library of New Zealand, https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23173534. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Record: CRM-birthday-lander

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