"My Love is Come to Me" [Paul Paviour]

"My Love is Come to Me" [Paul Paviour]

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

Part of: "My delight"

Paviour, Paul; music (English, born 1931)

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

1999 [publication]; 2016 [publication] [copyright]

New South Wales: Australian Music Centre; Houston: Alliance Pubications, Inc.

genre: choral music|song|art song (lied)|song cycle|choral suite

chorus: women's SSA chorus

instrumentation: a cappella

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in the song cycle "My delight" which includes 1. "My delight and thy delight" (Robert Bridges); 2. "The first day" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "When I was fair and young" (Elizabeth I); 4. "Love came so lightly" (John Shaw Neilson); 5. "My love is come to me" (Christina Rossetti).

Tempo markings: "Allegro ecstatico"; quarter note = 98

Format 1: musical score

4 pages (pp. 15-18)

Other data reference(s): Record for "My delight : a choral suite for SSA a capella treble choir." Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2017564400. Accessed 31 Mar. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Record: CRM-birthday-paviour

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