"The Rainbow" [arr. Grace Wilbur Conant, Frances Weld Danielson, music by Robert Schumann]

"The Rainbow" [arr. Grace Wilbur Conant, Frances Weld Danielson, music by Robert Schumann]

First line of lyrics: If all were rain and never sun

Schumann, Robert; music (German, 1810-1856)

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

Conant, Grace Wilbur; arrangement (American, 1858-1948). Danielson, Frances Weld; arrangement (American, 1872-1948)

1905 [publication] [copyright]; 1914 [publication]; 1915 [publication] [copyright]

Boston, Chicago: The Pilgrim Press; Philadelphia: The Westminster Press

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

male composer|female arranger

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'If all were rain and never sun'"

Notes: "Adapted from Schumann." From a collection called "Songs For Little People: For Use in the Sunday-School, the Kindergarten, and the Home," first published in 1905. The collection includes an introduction by Lucy Wheelock and a foreword by editors Frances Weld Danielson and Grace Wilbur Conant. A new edition of the collection was published 10 years later, which included the addition of thirty-six new and old songs.

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4484

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

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Conant, Grace Wilbur. "The Rainbow." Songs for little people: For use in the Sunday-School, the Kindergarten, and the Home, edited by Frances Weld Danielson and Grace Wilbur Conant, 2nd ed., Pilgrim Press, 1915, p. 109, no. 131. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/songspe00dani. Accessed 12 April 2019.

Record: CRM-ifallwererain-conant-danielson-schumann

File(s): CRM-ifallwererain-conant-danielson-schumann.jpg

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