"I know a baby" [Felix White]

"I know a baby" [Felix White]

First line of lyrics: I know a baby, such a baby

White, Felix Harold; music (English, 1884-1945)

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

1924-02-27 [composition]; 1928 [publication] [copyright]

London: Oxford University Press

genre: song|part song|choral music

chorus: two-part chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 9/8

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'I know a baby, such a baby'"

Composition history: "Words reprinted by permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd."

Performance instructions: "Quietly flowing." Two-part chorus for soprano and mezzo-soprano.

Notes: "Key G"

Format 1: musical score

Contains tonic sol-fa notation

4 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4479

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): Record for "I know a baby / Felix White ; Christina G. Rossetti." Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/RCM-White. Accessed 4 June 2021.

Cataloguer: Monica Cote Macson, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Royal College of Music Library, London. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/RCM-White. Accessed 4 June 2021.

Record: CRM-iknowababy-white

File(s): CRM-iknowababy-white.pdf

"Copyright in U.S.A. and all countries, 1928, by the Oxford University Press, London."

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