A61 The Lilacs Are in Bloom

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A61-a First edition

Title Page

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Description

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A61-a First edition

Title Page

The LILACS

ARE IN BLOOM

Song for Voice & Piano

By

MILDRED LUND TYSON

two musical notations with arrow indicating High or Low

Price, 50 cents, net in U.S.A.

G. SCHIRMER, INC. - New York

design of lilacs and leaves with hovering butterfly, printed in lilac and green, with all lettering in lilac, and all within arched green border

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Published 1934

Description

Height 11 3/4 in; 1.75 in; 29.85 cm

Width: 9 in; 22.86 cm

[a]2, [b]1 (inserted between [a]1 and [a]2); pp 6, comprising:

• title page, p [1];
• words and music pp 2-5, with

Copyright, 1934, by G. Schirmer (Inc.)

International Copyright Secured

Printed in the U. S. A.

at foot p 2;

• advertisement for “Two Songs by Kathleen Lockhart Manning” p [6].

Later impressions omit word “net” in price line on title page, and the advertisement on p [6] is for

SONGS BY

American Composers

SERIES THREE.

A still later impression has title page omitted, and in place of it

SONGS BY

American Composers

SERIES FOUR

are listed with an arrow pointing to the title of this song. According to the composer, the song “is also published in a 3 part choral arrangement for women’s voices.”

An earlier musical setting of the poem by Norman O’Neill was included in his Five Rondels, Avison Edition, London, 1907.

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This is a musical setting of GM’s poem first published in Mayfair Magazine, May 1884, and later as one of the “Two Rondels” in Ballades and Rondeaus (B4).