"Happy Little Alice" [Eleanor Smith]

"Happy Little Alice" [Eleanor Smith]

First line of lyrics: Dancing on the hill-tops

Smith, Eleanor Sophia; music (American, 1858-1942)

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

1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 [copyright] [publication]; 1929, 1938 [copyright] [publication]

Scott, Foresman and Company; New York, Boston, Chicago: Silver, Burdett and Company

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

initial sharps/flats: three sharps

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Dancing on the hill-tops'"

Notes about the text: The 1901 version contains all three stanzas of the poem except for lines 11-12 in the third stanza. The 1929 version omits the second stanza from the 1901 version.

Notes: This song is one of fourteen settings of poems by Christina Rossetti found in Eleanor Smith's Modern Music Series, first volume "A Primer of Vocal Music" (1901). It is in a section called "Action." The following statement is found prominently on the title page of the book: "Wherein the study of musical structure is pursued through the consideration of complete melodic forms and practice based on exercises related to them" (1898-1901). The song was then published in the collection "The Music Hour" Book Three, 1929 (Gooch and Thatcher 4337), 1937 (Record for "The Music Hour...") by Osbourne McConathy; W. Otto Miessner; Edward Bailey Birge; Mabel E. Bray.

Format 1: musical score

1 page

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4341

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 "The Music Hour..." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9440567. Accessed 28 Jun 2021.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score (1901): Smith, Eleanor. A Primer of Vocal Music, The Modern Music Series, Silver, Burdett and Company, 1901, p. 20. Internet Archives, https://archive.org/details/modmusserprimer00smith. Accessed 3 Jun 2021.

Musical score (1929): The Music Hour: Book Three, edited by Osbourne McConathy, et al., Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929, p. 25. Southern Connecticut State University Library, New Haven.

Record: CRM-dancingonthehilltops-smith

File(s): CRM-dancingonthehilltops-smith-1901.pdf; CRM-dancingonthehilltops-smith-1929.jpg

"Copyright, 1898, 1899, 1900 | By Scott, Foresman & Company | Copyright, 1901 | By Silver, Burdett & Company" (Smith)

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