Bird of the Greenwood (Wallace, William Vincent)

		Movements/Sections 1 Composition Year 1853 probably? Genre Categories Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the piano; Scores featuring the alto voice; English language

Sheet Music

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Scores

 Complete Score for Contralto in F
*#219455 - 1.46MB, 8 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 81x⇩

PDF scanned by Libr. of Congress
Schissel (2012/5/15)

Publisher Info.:

New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1884. Plate 11208.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	Bird of the Greenwood
Alternative Title

Composer	Wallace, William Vincent
Key	A major (soprano), F major (contralto)
Movements/Sections	1
Year/Date of Composition	1853 probably?
First Publication	1866 – New York: William Hall & Son
Librettist	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1793–1835)
Language	English
Dedication	Warren Hill
Average Duration	2 minutes
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voice, piano (soprano or contralto singer)
External Links	*Text at PDMusic

Misc. Comments

The title page of the score has "The last composition of Wm. Vincent Wallace Written in America", and the composer left the United States in 1853 (did he ever return? Don't know- anyone?). Am interpreting this to mean the last composition that he wrote when he was in America, though this may be a misinterpretation!

According to Lamb's William Vincent Wallace: Composer, Virtuoso and Adventurer (Fullers Wood Press, 2012), Bird of the Greenwood was published in 1866 by William Hall & Son. Thanks to Benjamin Tubb of PDMusic for this information.