"A Birthday" [Walter J. Lancaster]

"A Birthday" [Walter J. Lancaster]

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

Lancaster, Walter J. [James]; music (English, active 1860-1952)

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

n.d., 1900 ca [publication]

London: Joseph Williams

genre: song|parlour song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Composition history: "By kind permission of Messrs MacMillan."

Tempo markings: quarter note = 100

Dedication: "To my friend Edward Iles"

Notes: Published as part of the song collection called "Six Songs" which includes 1. "O Swallow Swallow" (Tennyson); 2. "When I have fears" (Keats); 3. "The Lady of the Lambs" (Alice Meynell); 4. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "A Birthday" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "I arise from dreams of thee" (Percy Shelley).

Format 1: musical score

2 pages (pp. 4-5)

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Lancaster, Walter J. "A Birthday." Six Songs, London, Joseph Williams, pp. 4-5. Royal Academy of Music Library, London

Record: CRM-birthday-lancaster

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