"Flowers are closed, and lambs are sleeping" [R. R. Terry]

"Flowers are closed, and lambs are sleeping" [R. R. Terry]

First line of lyrics: Lullaby, Lullaby

Part of: "Three Cradle Songs"

Terry, Richard Runciman, Sir; music (English, 1864-1938)

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

1905 July [composition]; 1924, 1925 [copyright]

London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd.

genre: song

solo: voice

chorus: unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Lullaby, oh lullaby!'"

Place in the larger work: The second song of three in the song cycle called "Three Cradle Songs" which includes 1. "Sleep, Baby, sleep (Traditional); 2. "Flowers are closed, and lambs are sleeping" (Christina Rossetti.); 3. "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes" (T. Dekker).

Notes about the text: The word "oh" in the line is not always present in the song. In the song, lines 3 and 7, "Lullaby, oh lullaby" in the poem are omitted, but repeated elsewhere, with or without the word "oh".

Composition history: "By permission of Messrs. MACMILLAN & Co." The place and date of composition is noted at the end of the score, "Cologne, July 1905."

Tempo markings: "Allegretto"; quarter note = 144

Format 1: musical score

Contains tonic sol-fa notation

5 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4605

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 "Three Cradle Songs : For Unison Singing." WorldCat, https://worldcat.org/en/title/497163395. Accessed 14 Feb. 2023.
de Livet, Christian Marc. ‘An Idealist Touched by Practicality’: The work and influence of Richard Runciman Terry (1864–1938). 2018. Christ Church University, PhD Dissertation. CCCU Research Space Repository, https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/8qq10/-an-idealist-touched-by-practicality-the-work-and-influence-of-richard-runciman-terry-1864-1938

Cataloguer: Matthew Foti and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Record: CRM-lullabyoh-terry

File(s): CRM-lullabyoh-terry.pdf

"By permission of Messrs. MacMillan & Co."; "Copyright, 1925, by R.R. Terry."

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