Christina Rossetti In Music

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"The Bourne" [Alice Macdonald]

Title

"The Bourne" [Alice Macdonald]

Creator

Macdonald, Alice [Caroline Kipling]; music (English, 1837-1910)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1865

Subject

genre: song
origin: United Kingdom
female composer

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "The Bourne"
Notes: "[Dante Gabriel Rossetti] suggested that this poem be removed from The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, but [Christina Rossetti] kept it 'partly because it has been set to music very prettily by Alice Macdonald' (Letters 1:243)" (Ives DM2).

Source

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM2
Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Identifier

Record: CRM-bourne-macdonald

Rights

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Files

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Collection

Citation

Macdonald, Alice [Caroline Kipling]; music (English, 1837-1910) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"The Bourne" [Alice Macdonald],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 23, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3203.