Christina Rossetti In Music

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"Lady of the Land" [May Sarson]

Title

"Lady of the Land" [May Sarson]
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
origin: United Kingdom
female composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "'The lily has a smooth stalk'"
Place in the larger work: The fifth 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"

Format

Format 1: musical score
Contains tonic sol-fa notation

Source

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4510
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.
Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Identifier

Record: CRM-lilyhas-sarson

Rights

"Copyright, 1933, by Novello and Company, Limited"
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Files

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Collection

Citation

Sarson, May [Hilda May]; music (English, 1901-1958) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"Lady of the Land" [May Sarson],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 14, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/3374.

Item Relations

Item: "Boats and Bridges" [May Sarson] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Lullaby, Oh Lullaby!" [May Sarson] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Hope and Joy" [May Sarson] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item
Item: "Winter" [May Sarson] is part of a larger work that also includes This Item