"Love came down at Christmas" [Leo Sowerby]
Title
"Love came down at Christmas" [Leo Sowerby]
First line of lyrics: Love came down at Christmas
Creator
Sowerby, Leo; music (American, 1895-1968)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
1935 [copyright] [publication]
Publisher
Chicago: H.T. Fitzsimons
Subject
genre: sacred music|Christmas music|choral music|song
chorus: SCTB chorus
instrumentation: organ
initial sharps/flats: three flats
initial time signature: 3/4
origin: United States
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "Christmastide"
Tempo markings: "Slowly"
Format
Format 1: musical score
5 pages
Source
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4568
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 : for mixed voices." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/494239443. Accessed 6 May 2019.
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
musical score: Talbott Library, Westminster Choir College, Princeton
Identifier
Record: CRM-christmastide-sowerby
File(s): CRM-christmastide-sowerby.pdf
Rights
"Copyright, MCMXXXV, by H.T. FitzSimons Co., Chicago Ill. International Copyright Secured"
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Files
Collection
Citation
Sowerby, Leo; music (American, 1895-1968) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Love came down at Christmas" [Leo Sowerby],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed September 20, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2670.