"Pussy" [unknown composer]

"Pussy" [unknown composer]

First line of lyrics: Pussy has a whisker'd face

Unknown; music (Nursery Songs)

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

1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 [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: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Pussy has a whiskered face'"

Notes about the text: The word "Kitty" in line 2 of the poem was replaced with "Pussy" in the lyrics.

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 "Animals." 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).

Format 1: musical score

1 page

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Smith, Eleanor. A Primer of Vocal Music, The Modern Music Series, Silver, Burdett and Company, 1901, p. 27. Internet Archives, https://archive.org/details/modmusserprimer00smith. Accessed 3 Jun 2021.

Record: CRM-currantsonabush-wilson

File(s): CRM-currantsonabush-wilson.pdf

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

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