"May Flowers" [John Ireland]

"May Flowers" [John Ireland]

Ireland, John [Nicholson]; music (English, 1879-1962)

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

1919 [composition] [publication] [copyright]; 1999 [publication]

London : Edward Arnold & Co. Ltd.; Bury St. Edmund's: Novello & Co.

genre: song|choral music|children's music|part song

chorus: two-part treble chorus|two-part women's chorus

duet: soprano and alto|duet: two sopranos

instrumentation: piano

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'There is but one May in the year'"

Composition history: In January 1919, Ireland set the Rossetti poem "in memory of Lillian Dunhill, the niece of composer Thomas Dunhill [...], who had recently died of pneumonia at the age of twelve." (Foreman, p. 191)

Dedication: "For Lillian" [Lillian Dunhill]

Notes: Also published in a compilation of John Ireland's part songs called: "Eight Songs For Upper Voices And Piano" by Novello & Co. 1999.

Format 1: musical score

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4816

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. 65.
Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion, Boydell Press and Boydell & Brewerp, 2011, p. 291.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-thereisbutonemay-ireland

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