Christina Rossetti In Music

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"Newborn" [John Ireland]

Title

"Newborn" [John Ireland]
First line of lyrics: Your brother has a falcon
Part of: "Mother and Child"

Creator

Ireland, John [Nicholson]; music (English, 1879-1962)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1918 [composition] [copyright]

Publisher

London: Winthrop Rogers; New York: C. Schirmer; Boston: Boston Music

Subject

genre: children's music|song|song cycle
solo: medium voice
chorus: children's unison chorus
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats
initial time signature: 2/2
origin: United Kingdom
male composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "'Your brother has a falcon'"
Place in the larger work: The first song of eight in a song cycle called "Mother and Child," settings of Christina Rossetti nursery rhymes from "Sing Song". The songs include 1. "New Born"; 2. "The Only Child"; 3. "Hope"; 4. "Skylark and Nightingale"; 5. "The Blind Boy"; 6. "Baby"; 7. "Death-Parting"; 8. "The Garland".
Tempo markings: "Moderato"; half note = 58
Recordings: "Mother and Child." Songs, John Ireland. Performance by Alfreda Hodgson, contralto, Alan Rowlands, piano, recorded in association with the John Ireland Trust, vol. 3, Lyrita, 1975-1979. LP.
Dedication: "To my sister."
Notes: This one song from "Mother and Child" was also published separately in the same year as "Your Brother has a falcon." (Ives DM228, Gooch and Thatcher 4903)

Format

Format 1: musical score
2 pages (pp. 8-9); performance time 1 minutes and 22 seconds

Source

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM228; Gooch and Thatcher 4903
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): Craggs, Stewart R. John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography. 2nd edition, Ashgate, 2007, p. 60.
Cataloguer: Mary Arseneau and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
musical score: "Mother and Child." IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/wiki/Mother_and_Child_(Ireland,_John)#IMSLP285578. Accessed 3 Jan. 2017.

Identifier

Record: CRM-yourbrotherhas-ireland
File(s): CRM-yourbrotherhas-ireland.pdf

Rights

"Copyright 1918, by Winthrop Rogers Ltd."; John Ireland Trust
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Files

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Citation

Ireland, John [Nicholson]; music (English, 1879-1962) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Newborn" [John Ireland],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 15, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2801.

Item Relations

This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "The Only Child" [John Ireland]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Hope" [John Ireland]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Skylark and Nightingale" [John Ireland]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "The Blind Boy" [John Ireland]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Baby" [John Ireland]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "Death-Parting" [John Ireland]
This Item is part of a larger work that also includes Item: "The Garland" [John Garland]