"Easter Carol"; "Spring bursts to-day" [Martin Shaw]

"Easter Carol"; "Spring bursts to-day" [Martin Shaw]

First line of lyrics: Spring bursts today

Shaw, Martin [Edward Fallas]; music (English, 1875-1958)

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

1917 [publication ] [copyright]; 1945 [U.S.A. copyright renewed]

London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd.; New York: G. Schirmer Inc.

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 2/2

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "An Easter Carol"

Composition history: "By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co."

Tempo markings: "Allegro vivace"; half note = "about 100"

Dedication: "To Ralph Vaughan Williams"

Format 1: musical score

3 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 3466

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, University of Ottawa

musical score: Reid Music Library, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Record: CRM-eastercarol-shaw-1

File(s): CRM-eastercarol-shaw-1.pdf

"Copyright, 1917, by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd. Copyright, U.S.A. renewed 1945"

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