"O Sailor" [Karl Wilson Gehrkens]

"O Sailor" [Karl Wilson Gehrkens]

First line of lyrics: O sailor come a shore

Gehrkens, Karl Wilson; music (American, 1882-1975)

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

1935 [publication] [copyright]

New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge Inc.

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

initial sharps/flats: four sharps

initial time signature: 4/2

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'O sailor, come ashore'"

Composition history: "Used by permission of The Macmillan Company."

Notes: Published in "Art Songs and Part Songs," volume 6 of the "New Universal School Music Series" by Walter Damrosch, George H. Gartlan, Karl W. Gehrkens. For one to three treble voices. (Record for "Art Songs and Part Songs")

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4665

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): Record for "Art Songs and Part Songs." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22148644. Accessed 13 May 2021.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: Damrosch, Walter, et al. "Art Songs and Part Songs." New universal school music series, v. 6, Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge Inc., 1935, p. 52. Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA

Record: CRM-osailorcome-gehrkens

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