"A Nursery Rhyme" [Francis Hueffer]

"A Nursery Rhyme" [Francis Hueffer]

First line of lyrics: Your brother has a falcon

Hueffer, Francis; music (English, born in Germany as Franz Hüffer, 1845-1889)

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

1880 [publication]

London: Novello, Ewer & Co.; Boston, New York and Philadelphia: Ditson & Co.

genre: song

duet: two sopranos

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 2/8

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Your brother has a falcon'"

Tempo markings: "Allegretto"

Performance instructions: The "second part may be omitted and the piece sung as a solo."

Performance history: Ives notes that on January 1, 1880, William Michael Rossetti attended a dinner party at the Hueffers, at which Hueffer and Cathy Brown-Hueffer (William Michael Rossetti's sister-in-law) performed the setting (DM40).

Notes: The setting was reviewed in the "Musical Times" on 1 April 1880 (Ives DM40).

Format 1: musical score

3 pages

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM40; Gooch and Thatcher 4902

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.|Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: British Library, London

Record: CRM-yourbrotherhasafalcon-hueffer

File(s): CRM-yourbrotherhasafalcon-hueffer.pdf

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