"A Birthday" [Charles Fonteyn Manney]

"A Birthday" [Charles Fonteyn Manney]

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

Manney, Charles Fonteyn; music (American, 1872-1951)

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

1935 [publication]

Philadelphia: T. Presser

genre: choral music|song

chorus: women's SSA chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Notes about the text: In the second line of the second stanza the word "vair" is replaced with "rare."

Tempo markings: "Allegro, non troppo, ma con brio"

Dedication: "To the Mac Dowell Club Chorus, Boston"

Format 1: musical score

6 pages (pp. 26-31)

Other data reference(s): Record for "Philomelian three-part chorus collection : for women's voices." University of Toronto Libraries, https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?6907809&uuid=8a86eece-8d63-4357-88bf-8a429316bbec. Accessed 4 Mar. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: University of Toronto Robarts Library, Toronto

Record: CRM-birthday-manney

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

"Copyright 1926 by Theo. Presser Co."

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