"A Birthday" [Isidore Luckstone]

"A Birthday" [Isidore Luckstone]

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

Luckstone, Isidore; music (American, 1861-1941)

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

1920 [publication]

New York: Carl Fischer, Inc.

genre: song

solo: high voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: five flats

initial time signature: 2/4

other version 1 - solo: low voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: piano

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Notes about the text: "Thickest fruit" is substituted for "thickset fruit."

Tempo markings: "Molto allegro"; quarter note = 144

Performance instructions: Luckstone instructs the singer to sing "with youthful ecstasy."

Dedication: "To Mme. Amelita Galli-Curci"

Format 1: musical score

6 pages (pp. 2-7)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4221

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 "A birthday / Isidore Luckstone ; words by C.G. Rossetti." University of Missouri-Kansas City Library, http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/record=b6522555~S3. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.
Record for "A birthday High voice." Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/0?searchdata1=6648759%7BCKEY%7D&searchfield1=GENERAL%5ESUBJECT%5EGENERAL%5E%5E&user_id=WEBSERVER. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri

Record: CRM-birthday-luckstone

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

"Copyright 1920, by Carl Fischer, New York."

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