"Flower Thoughts" [Jane Morris]

"Flower Thoughts" [Jane Morris]

First line of lyrics: Hope is like a slender harebell, all a tremble from its birth

Morris, Jane; music

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

Morris, Jane; adapted text

1903, 1906 [publication] [copyright]

Boston: Ginn and Company

genre: children's music|song|choral music

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: a cappella

initial sharps/flats: three sharps

initial time signature: 3/4

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth'"

Notes about the text: This song is an adaptation of the first three lines of the poem.

Notes: The Introduction of "First Music Reader" by James M McLaughlin, G A Veazie and William Wallace Gilchrist, begins with the statement, "The First Reader of the New Educational Music Course is the first book to be placed in the hands of the pupil, and forms an integral part of a course for adequate music instruction in the public schools." "The aim of this Course it to develop in the pupil an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good music, a musical and expressive voice, the ability to read music at sight, and the power of musical interpretation."

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4467

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: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Morris, Jane. "Flower Thoughts." First Music Reader, edited by James E. McLaughlin, et al., Ginn and Company, 1906, p. 92, no. 444. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/firstmusicreader00mclarich/page/92/mode/2up. Accessed 8 Sep. 2020.

Record: CRM-hopeislikeaharebell-morris

File(s): CRM-hopeislikeaharebell-morris.pdf

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