"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [C.H.H. Parry]

"My Heart is Like a Singing Bird" [C.H.H. Parry]

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

Parry, C. Hubert H. [Charles Hubert Hastings], Sir; music (English, 1848-1918)

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

1918 [publication]

London: Novello & Company

genre: song

solo: soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Notes about the text: Exchanges "halcyon sea" for "purple sea" and "silk and down" for ""purple gold."

Tempo markings: "Joyously"

Recordings: Parry, Hubert, et al. "My Heart is Like a Singing Bird." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Sarah Fox, soprano, Andrew West, piano. 12 Sets of English Lyrics, vol. 3, SOMM Recordings, 2018. Spotify, 5AfybP1Fvc1tVRWLu3MKGn. Accessed 11 Feb. 2019.

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4227

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

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: private collection

Record: CRM-birthday-parry

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

"Copyright, 1918, by Novello & Company, Limited. Copyright renewed 1946."

The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.