"What Does the Bee Do?" [Frederick Zuchtmann]

"What Does the Bee Do?" [Frederick Zuchtmann]

First line of lyrics: What does the bee do?

Zuchtmann, Frederick; music (American, 1829?-1909)

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

1902, 1903 [copyright]; 1905 [publication]

New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

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

Performance instructions: In the lyrics, the word "lays" replaces "lay" in line 6 of the Rossetti poem.

Notes: One song of eight settings of Christina Rossetti poems that appear in the "New American Music Reader Number One" by Frederick Zuchtmann published in 1905 by Macmillian. In the introduction, it states that "Just as language is studied from examples of the best writers, so music should be studied from the works of the best composers. The song contains all the elements of instruction, and those elements should be studied for the sake of interpreting the song. Melody, rhythm, tone-production, enunciation, breathing, and interpretation are best studied from living and vital songs, and these should be the source and the basis as well as the object of instruction." The book was meant to provide teachers with all the necessary exercises and songs to teach children about music, and save them the time and effort of having to find the material themselves. (Zuchtmann, p. 3)

Format 1: musical score

1 page

Other data reference(s): Zuchtmann, Frederick. "Introduction." New American Music Reader, Number One. Macmillan, 1905, pp. 3-6.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: "What Does the Bee Do?." New American Music Reader, Number One by Frederick Zuchtmann, Macmillan, 1905, p. 129, no. 305. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101719081

Record: CRM-whatdoesthebee-zuchtmann

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

"New York, The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1905. All rights reserved." "Copyright, 1902, 1903 by Richardson, Smith & Company"

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