by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Dancing on the hill‑tops
Language: English
Dancing on the hill-tops, Singing in the valleys, Laughing with the echoes, Merry little Alice. Playing games with lambkins In the flowering valleys, Gathering pretty posies, Helpful little Alice. If her father's cottage Turned into a palace, And he owned the hill-tops And the flowering valleys, She'd be none the happier, Happy little Alice.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "Dancing on the hill-tops", published 1922 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Dancing on the hill-tops", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 2 no. 2, published 1908 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Craig Sellar Lang (1891? - 1971), "Dancing on the hill-tops", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Smith , "Happy little Alice", published 1928-30 [ unaccompanied voice ], in the collection The Music Hour [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 54