"A birthday" [R. Huntington Woodman]

"A birthday" [R. Huntington Woodman]

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

Woodman, R. Huntington [Raymond Huntington]; music (American, 1861-1943)

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

1909 [publication]

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc.

genre: song

solo: low voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: high voice

other version 1 - instrumentation: orchestra

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Tempo markings: "Allegro apassionato"

Recordings: "Victor matrix B-14232. A birthday / Florence Hinkle." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by Florence Hinkle, soprano. Discography of American Historical Recordings, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200014497/B-14232-A_birthday. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.

Dedication: "To Mrs. Corrine Rider-Kelsey"

Notes: Low voice in A flat; also available for high voice in D flat.

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4235

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

Reference: IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

Musical score: State University of New York, https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/64628/SMUS%20249.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

Record: CRM-birthday-woodman

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

"Copyright, 1909, by G. Schirmer"

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