"My heart is like a singing bird" [Miriam Gideon]

"My heart is like a singing bird" [Miriam Gideon]

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

Part of: "Wing'd Hour"

Gideon, Miriam; music (American, 1906-1996)

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

1985 [copyright]

New York: C. F. Peters

genre: song|song cycle

solo: high voice

instrumentation: flute|oboe|vibraphone|violin|cello

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Place in the larger work: The second song of three in the song cycle called "Wing'd Hour" which includes 1. "Silent noon" (Dante Gabriel Rossetti); 2. "My heart is like a singing bird" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Autumn" (Walter de la Mare).

Tempo markings: "Fast, joyously"; quarter note = 60

Notes: The three songs in the song cycle are preceded by a one-page instrumental prelude.

Format 1: musical score

5 pages (pp. 7-11); performance time 10 minutes

Other data reference(s): Record for "Wing'd hour : a song cycle : high voice, flute, oboe, vibraphone, violin and violoncello / Miriam Gideon ; poems by Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walter de la Mare." Western University Libraries, http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/record=b1966058~S20. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.
Record for "Wing'd hour : a song cycle on poems of Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter de la Mare for high voice, flute, oboe, vibraphone, violin, cello." University of Toronto Libraries, http://go.utlib.ca/cat/4556354. Accessed 28 Jan. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Toronto Music Library, Toronto

Record: CRM-birthday-gideon

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