"Sing Me a Song" [James H. Rogers]

"Sing Me a Song" [James H. Rogers]

First line of lyrics: Sing me a song

Rogers, James Hotchkiss; music (American, 1857-1940)

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

1929 [publication] [copyright]

New York, Newark, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco: Silver, Burdett and Company

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Sing me a song'"

Notes about the text: This song is a setting of lines 1-4 only and ends with the word "sing" twice and line 1 of the poem.

Tempo markings: "In moderate time but without dragging"

Notes: This song is one of eight settings of poems by Christina Rossetti published in the collection "The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade" (1929) by Osbourne McConathy, Formerly Director of the Department of Public School Music, Northwestern University; W. Otto Miessner, Director of Public School Music, Chicago Musical College; Edward Bailey Birge, Professor of Public School Music, Indiana University; Mabel E. Bray, Director of the Department of Music, State Teachers College of Trenton, New Jersey. It is categorized for "The First Grade" in a section called "Games and Play Activities." "Grateful acknowledgment is also due to Mrs. Emma Grant Meader of the State Normal School, New Haven, Connecticut, and Teachers College, Columbia University, for her selection and supervision of the choice of poetry; Mrs. Florence E. Dangerfield, Director of he Department of Physical Education, Bradford Academy, Haverhill, Massachusetts, for her assistance in correlating rhythmic activities with the vocal music lesson; [...] and especially the poets and composers who have graciously contributed to the book as an expression of their love for little children" ("Acknowledgments" p. vi).

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4722

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): "Acknowledgments." The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade, edited by Osbourne McConathy, et al., Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929, p. vi.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score: The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade, edited by Osbourne McConathy, et al., Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929, p. 157. Western Connecticut State University Libraries, Danbury.

Record: CRM-singmeasong-rogers

File(s): CRM-singmeasong-rogers.pdf

"Copyright, 1929, by Silver, Burdett and Company" for the collection "The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade", which states "This volume contains much original matter which is covered by the copyright of the book and must not be used without special permission."

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