"What does the bee do?" [Fanny Snow Knowlton]

"What does the bee do?" [Fanny Snow Knowlton]

First line of lyrics: Who does the bee do?

Knowlton, Fanny Snow; music (American, 1859-1926)

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

1923 [publication] [copyright]

Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, San Francisco: Ginn and Company

genre: song|children's music

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: four flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'What does the bee do?'"

Composition history: Special permission by "Macmillan & Co., Limited for the use of the poem.

Performance instructions: "With expression"

Notes: One of three settings of poems by Christina Rossetti that appear in the publication "Songs of Childhood" by Thaddeus P. Giddings, Director of School Music in Minneapolis MN, Will Earhart, Director of School Music in Pittsburgh PA, Ralph L. Baldwin, Director of School Music in Hartford CT and Edbridge W. Newton, Managing Editor. It was ublished by Ginn and Company in 1923 as part of the "Music Education Series." "Piano accompaniments for these songs are issues in another volume." (p. 5)

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4853

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): Giddings, Thaddeus P. et al., Songs of Childhood, Ginn and Company, 1923. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006577578, Traditional Music Library, http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songs-childhood/. Accessed 21 Sep. 2020.

Cataloguer: Jacob Spence and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Knowlton, Fanny Snow. "What does the bee do?." Songs of Childhood, edited by Thaddeus P. Giddings et al., Ginn and Company, 1923, p. 75. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006577578. Accessed 21 Sep 2020.

Record: CRM-whatdoesthebee-knowlton

File(s): CRM-whatdoesthebee-knowlton.pdf

"Copyright, 1923, by Ginn and Company. All Rights Reserved."

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