"January" [Fanny Snow Knowlton]

"January" [Fanny Snow Knowlton]

First line of lyrics: On the wind of January

Knowlton, Fanny Snow; music (American, 1859-1926)

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

1898 [copyright]; 1917 [publication]

Springfield, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco: Milton Bradley Company

genre: children's music|song

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

initial sharps/flats: two sharps

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Year's Windfalls"

Notes about the text: This song only includes the first stanza of the poem.

Composition history: Text "By permission of Robert Brothers, publishers."

Performance instructions: "With spirit"

Dedication: "To my little boy | DONALD | My critic, counselor and most | appreciative listener these songs are | lovingly inscribed by his | MOTHER."

Notes: Appears as the first song, under "The Months," in the composer's book "Nature Songs for Children" published by Milton Bradley Company, 1917.

Format 1: musical score

Contains tonic sol-fa notation

2 pages

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4901

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

Cataloguer: Monica Cote Macson and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Knowlton, Fanny Snow. Nature Songs for Children. Milton Bradley Company, 1917, pp. 6-7. HathiTrust, catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/4385699.html. Accessed 15 Feb. 2023.

Record: CRM-yearswindfalls-knowlton

File(s): CRM-yearswindfalls-knowlton.pdf

"Copyrighted, 1898, by MILTON BRADLEY CO."

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