"If I were a Queen" [Newel Kay Brown]

"If I were a Queen" [Newel Kay Brown]

Part of: "A Set of Three"

Brown, Newel Kay; music (American, born 1932)

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

1969 [composition]

genre: song|song cycle

solo: soprano

instrumentation: flute

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'If I were a Queen'"

Place in the larger work: One of three songs in the song cycle called "A Set of Three," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include "Who has seen the wind?"; "If I were a Queen"; "A Birthday".

Performance history: Debut performance of the song cycle: March 1969, Arkadelphia, Arkansas (Gooch and Thatcher 4489). Performance of the song cycle: 9 March 1971, Student Recital Series, Voice Department, North Texas State University, performance by Mary Ella Antahades, soprano, Myrna Brown, flute, Clyde Miller, horn, at the recital hall. ("School of Music Program Book")

Format 1: musical score

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4489

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

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): "School of Music Program Book 1970-1971, Page 200." UNT Digital Library, University of North Texas, https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc79462/m1/202/?q=november%2022. Accessed 26 Jun 2020.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-ifiwereaqueen-brown

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