"May and June" [unknown composer]
Title
"May and June" [unknown composer]
First line of lyrics: Birds sing in tune
Creator
Unknown; music
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
1911 [publication] [copyright]
Publisher
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company
Subject
genre: children's music|song
solo: voice
chorus: children's unison chorus
initial sharps/flats: one flat
initial time signature: 3/4
origin: United States
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "'January cold desolate'"
Notes about the text: This song is a setting of lines 5-8 only. In line 7, the word "And" in the poem was replaced by "Bright" in the lyrics.
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
Format 1: musical score
1 page
Source
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa
Musical score: Smith, Eleanor. The Eleanor Smith Music Primer, American Book Company, 1911, p. 105. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100414963. Accessed 29 Jun 2021.
Identifier
Record: CRM-januarycold-unknown-1
File(s): CRM-januarycold-unknown-1.pdf
Rights
"Copyright, 1911, by Eleanor Smith -- Entered at Stationers' Hall, London -- Primer"
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Files
Collection
Citation
Unknown; music and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"May and June" [unknown composer],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed September 19, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3094.