"Love came down at Christmas" [Alfred Ernest Floyd]

"Love came down at Christmas" [Alfred Ernest Floyd]

First line of lyrics: Love came down at Christmas

Floyd, Alfred Ernest; music (Australian, 1877-1974)

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

1955 ca [publication] [copyright]

Melbourne: Allans Music

genre: carol|choral music|sacred music|Christmas music|song|anthem

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: keyboard

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: Australia

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Christmastide"

Tempo markings: quarter note = about 88

Performance instructions: "The smallest possible tenuto on beat 3, the crotchets on beats 2 and 4 being correspondingly a trifle shortened."

Notes: Rossetti's song is # 421 in a collection called "Allan's Anthems."

Format 1: musical score

2 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4535

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Other data reference(s): Record for "Love came down at Christmas : carol." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221126392. Accessed 4 Nov. 2018.

Cataloguer: Jennifer Frederick & Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Floyd, Alfred E. "Love Came Down at Christmas." National Library of Australia. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-170270166/view?partId=nla.obj-170270177#page/n0/mode/1up. Accessed 23 Oct. 2018.

Record: CRM-christmastide-floyd

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