"A birthday" [John Duncan]

"A birthday" [John Duncan]

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

Duncan, John; music (American, 1913-1975)

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

1956 ca [composition]

genre: chamber music|song

solo: high voice

instrumentation: flute|string quartet

initial sharps/flats: six flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Tempo markings: "Andante"; "c. 60"

Notes: Included in the song collection "Romantic suite, or, Six chamber songs" which includes 1. "Jenny kissed me" (Leigh Hunt); 2. "I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden" (Percy Bysshe Shelley); 3. "Elegiac pastorale"; 4. "She is not fair to outward view" (Hartley Coleridge); 5. "A birthday" (Christina Georgina Rossetti); 6. "So we'll go no more a-roving" (Lord Byron) (Record for "Romantic suite, or, Six chamber songs : for flute, voice and string quartet").

Format 1: musical score

6 pages (pp. 12-17)

Other data reference(s): Record for "Romantic suite, or, Six chamber songs : for flute, voice and string quartet." Indiana University Library, https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/2315643. Accessed 1 Apr. 2019.

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Indiana University, Bloomington

Record: CRM-birthday-duncan

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