"Boats Sail on the Rivers" [Marlys Swinger]

"Boats Sail on the Rivers" [Marlys Swinger]

First line of lyrics: Boats sail on the rivers

Swinger, Marlys; music (American, born 1926)

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

1968 [copyright]; 1999 [publication]

Farmington: Plough Pub. House

genre: song|children's music

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 6/8

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Boats sail on the rivers'"

Performance instructions: "Smoothly"

Notes: A note below the title reads "All children love rainbows. After learning this song, spend some time coloring rainbows." From a 1999 collection of children's songs called "Sing Through the Day," compiled and edited by Marlys Swinger, published by Plough Publishing House.

Format 1: musical score

2 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4244

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Swinger, Marlys. "Boats Sail on the Rivers." Sing Through the Day, Plough Pub. House, 1999, pp. 70-71. University of Alberta, Edmonton.

Record: CRM-boatssail-swinger

"Music: ©1968 by The Plough Publishing House."

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