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"Boats sail on the river" [Sidney Homer]

Title

"Boats sail on the river" [Sidney Homer]
First line of lyrics: Boats sail on the river
Part of: "Seventeen Lyrics from 'Sing-Song'"

Creator

Homer, Sidney; music (American, 1864-1953)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1908 [copyright]; 1910 [publication]; 1995? [republication]; 2000? [publication]

Publisher

New York: G. Schirmer; Boston: Boston Music Co.; New York: Classical Vocal Reprints [1995?]; Boca Raton, Fla.: Masters Music Publications [2000?]

Subject

genre: children's music|song|song cycle
solo: high voice
chorus: children's unison chorus
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: four flats
initial time signature: 4/4
other version 1 - solo: low voice
other version 1 - chorus: children's unison chorus
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
origin: United States
male composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "'Boats sail on the rivers'"
Place in the larger work: The sixth song of seventeen in the song cycle called "Seventeen Lyrics from Sing-Song," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include in Part I, 1. "Eight o'clock; the postman's knock!"; 2. "Baby cry–Oh fie!"; 3. "Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush"; 4. "Love me,–I love you"; 5. "Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"; 6. "Boats sail on the rivers"; 7. "In the meadow–what in the meadow!"; 8. "The dog lies in his kennel"; 9. "Lie abed, sleepy head"; 10. "Mix a pancake, stir a pancake"; in Part II, 1. "Who has seen the wind?"; 2. "Dancing on the hilltops"; 3. "A pocket handkerchief to hem–"; 4. "A motherless soft lambkin"; 5. "Lullaby, oh lullaby!" ; 6. "Hurt no living thing"; 7. "Minnie and Mattie and fat little May".
Tempo markings: "Lento"; quarter note = 58
Performance instructions: "mf with breadth and elevation"
Recordings: Boats sail on the rivers : from "17 lyrics" op. 19. Louise Homer, contralto, with orchestra, recorded on 27 May 1914, Victor, Camden, N.J., 1914-1916?. WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891781529. Accessed 9 Jul 2020.
Dedication: "To my Wife and Children"
Notes: This song is also available with orchestra accompaniment (Gooch and Thatcher 4240). Key signature A flat" (Ives DM188)

Format

Format 1: musical score
2 pages (pp. 8-9)

Source

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM188; Gooch and Thatcher 4240
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
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): Record for "Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-Song" ... Op. 19, etc." British Library, http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004419060. Accessed 9 Jul 2020.
Record for "Seventeen lyrics from Sing-song, op. 19." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34052317. Accessed 9 Jul 2020.
Record for "Seventeen lyrics from Sing-song by Christina Rossetti : for high voice and piano, op. 19." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681509761. Accessed 9 Jul 2020.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Musical score for high voice [1908]: New York Public Library. Internet Archives, http://www.archive.org/details/seventeenlyricsf00home. Accessed 1 Aug 2019.

Identifier

Opus: 19
Record: CRM-boatssail-homer
File(s): CRM-boatssail-homer-high.pdf

Rights

"Copyright, 1908, by G. Schirmer, Inc."
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Files

Collection

JSTOR Forum Records

Citation

Homer, Sidney; music (American, 1864-1953) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Boats sail on the river" [Sidney Homer],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 16, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2705.

Item Relations

This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "In the meadow—what in the meadow?" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "The dog lies in his kennel" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Lie abed, sleepy head" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Mix a pancake, stir a pancake" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Who has seen the wind?" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Dancing on the hilltops" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "A pocket handkerchief to hem–" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "A motherless soft lambkin" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Lullaby, oh lullaby!" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Hurt no living thing" [Sidney Homer]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Minnie and Mattie and fat little May" [Sidney Homer]
Item: "Eight o'clock; the postman's knock" [Sidney Homer] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Baby cry–Oh fie!" [Sidney Homer] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush" [Sidney Homer] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Love me,–I love you" [Sidney Homer] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Kookoorookoo! Kookoorookoo!" [Sidney Homer] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item