"A birthday / Ein Geburtstag" [Albert Mallinson]

"A birthday / Ein Geburtstag" [Albert Mallinson]

First line of lyrics: My heart is like a singing bird / Mein Herz ist wie ein Wonnetraum

Mallinson, Albert; music (English, 1870-1946)

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

1900 [composition]; 1901 [publication] [copyright]

Leipzig: Wilhelm Hansen, Musik-Forlag; Oakville: The Frederick Harris Music Co. Ltd.

genre: song

solo: medium voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: five flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English|German

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Notes about the text: After the complete text of the poem is sung, the lines "My heart is like a singing bird / because my love is come to me" are added at the end of the song.

Tempo markings: "Allegro con anima"

Notes: Included in the song collection called "Christina Rossetti's Songs" which includes 1. "What Comes?"; 2. "A Birthday"; 3. "Pastime"; 4. "There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"; 5. "Boy Johnny"; 6. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 7. "Valentine"; 8. "The Sunrise Wakes the Lark to Sing"; 9. "The Way of the World"; 10. "The Winter of My Year."

Format 1: musical score

6 pages (pp. 7-12)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4223

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: Royal Academy of Music Library, London

Record: CRM-birthday-mallinson

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

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