"Boats and Bridges" [May Sarson]
Title
"Boats and Bridges" [May Sarson]
First line of lyrics: Boats sail on the rivers
Part of: "Boats and Bridges"
Creator
Sarson, May [Hilda May]; music (English, 1901-1958)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
1933 [copyright]
Publisher
London: Novello and Company, Limited
Subject
genre: song cycle|children's music|song
solo: voice
chorus: children's unison chorus
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: one sharp
initial time signature: 6/8
origin: United Kingdom
female composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "'Boats sail on the rivers'"
Place in the larger work: The first song of five in a song cycle called "Boats and Bridges," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "Boats and Bridges"; 2. "Lullaby, Oh Lullaby!"; 3. "Hope and Joy"; 4. "Winter"; 5. "Lady of the Land"
Tempo markings: "Allegretto grazioso"
Format
Format 1: musical score
Contains tonic sol-fa notation
2 pages
Source
In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4243
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 "Boats and Bridges : song cycle." WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/title/1303897192. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
“Back Matter.” The Musical Times, vol. 74, no. 1086, Aug. 1933, p. 753. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/919989. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.
“Back Matter.” The Musical Times, vol. 74, no. 1086, Aug. 1933, p. 753. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/919989. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.
Cataloguer: Hann Scurlock, University of Ottawa
Musical Score: Sarson, May. "Boats and Bridges: School and Song Cycle." London, Novello and Company Limited, 1933, p. 1-2. National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Identifier
Record: CRM-boatssail-sarson
File(s): CRM-boatssail-sarson.pdf
Rights
"Copyright, 1933, by Novello and Company, Limited"
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Files
Collection
Citation
Sarson, May [Hilda May]; music (English, 1901-1958) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Boats and Bridges" [May Sarson],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3373.
Item Relations
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Lullaby, Oh Lullaby!" [May Sarson] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Hope and Joy" [May Sarson] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Winter" [May Sarson] |
| This Item | is part of a larger work that also includes | Item: "Lady of the Land" [May Sarson] |