"A Birthday" [Brian Blyth Daubney]

"A Birthday" [Brian Blyth Daubney]

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

Daubney, Brian Blyth; music (English, born 1929)

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

2019 [composition]

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 2/2

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"

Composition history: Daubney has provided Christina Rossetti in Music Project with details about the composition history of this piece. "I recalled this - until now unwritten - setting I composed at the keyboard when I was about 16. It was quite impractical to sing as it was in a high-lying C# minor and started on a ridiculous high A! Yesterday I decided to transpose it, write it down with an accompaniment other than that I used with my 16-year old keyboard incorporation of the melody. Here is the result" ("A Birthday"). In another correspondence, Daubney wrote, "Years ago [. . .] I wrote [this song] at the keyboard. It has been in my mind ever since c. 1946 but I had not committed it to paper until my recent association with Mary Arseneau of Ottawa University whose research into settings of Christina Rossetti urged me to write it down – largely as it had stayed in my head all those years. It has now joined c. 12 others I sent her for her archive. I hope you’ll enjoy its youthful character" ("August Greetings").

Tempo markings: "Allegro"

Format 1: musical score

3 pages

Other data reference(s): Daubney, Brian Blyth. "A Birthday." Received by Mary Arseneau, 3 June 2019.
Daubney, Brian Blyth. "August Greetings." Received by Mary Arseneau, 27 July 2019.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Brian Blyth Daubney

Record: CRM-birthday-daubney

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

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