"What Children May Say" [unknown composer]

"What Children May Say" [unknown composer]

First line of lyrics: Seldom "can't"

Unknown; music

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

1911 [publication] [copyright]

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: United States

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Seldom "can't"'"

Tempo markings: "Moderato"

Notes: This song is one of three settings of poems by Christina Rossetti found in "The Eleanor Smith Music Primer" (1911), in Part III: "Songs for Sight Seeing Practice." The Preface states that this book "presents a collection of songs to be used during the first year [...] The songs comprising the book will be found varied in origin and character, childlike in spirit and very simple in structure. [...] Music of lasting quality has been chosen--songs which, when remembered in later years, may be treasured as the foundation of mature good taste. Chief among these are the beautiful fold songs with which the book abounds."

Format 1: musical score

1 page

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Smith, Eleanor. The Eleanor Smith Music Primer, American Book Company, 1911, p. 97. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100414963. Accessed 29 Jun 2021.

Record: CRM-seldomcant-unknown

File(s): CRM-seldomcant-unknown.pdf

"Copyright, 1911, by Eleanor Smith -- Entered at Stationers' Hall, London -- Primer"

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