untitled [setting of "A Birthday"] [Christine McCombe]

untitled [setting of "A Birthday"] [Christine McCombe]

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

Part of: "Halcyon"

McCombe, Christine; music (Australian)

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

1994 [composition] [copyright]

genre: song|song cycle

solo: voice

instrumentation: guitar

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: Australia

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Place in the larger work: The first song of three in the song cycle "Halcyon" which includes three settings of Rossetti poems: 1. "A Birthday"; 2. "Luscious and Sorrowful"; 3. "Three Stages."

Notes about the text: This is a setting of the first stanza of "A Birthday" only. McCombe substitutes "thickest fruit" for "thickset fruit."

Tempo markings: "Simple, lyrical"; "MM" quarter note = 54

Performance instructions: The part of the song cycle that includes the lyrics of "A Birthday" is to be played "Brightly."

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 1-3)

Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa

musical score: Australian Music Centre Library, New South Wales

Record: CRM-birthday-mccombe

"copyright: Christine Anne McCombe 1994"

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