Heine-Lieder : Comes my love today? = Kommt feins Liebchen heut'? / Manney

Composer: Manney, Charles Fonteyn
Dates: 1872-1951
Song title: Comes my love today? = Kommt feins Liebchen heut'?
Opus, no., etc.: op.3, Nr.2
Music collection title: Five Songs for medium voice
Imprint(s): Boston: O. Ditson Company, 1897
Source(s) for score: original publication, copied at Boston Public Library
1st line of poem: Morgens steh' ich auf und frage (Go to text and translation)
Source of poem: Buch der Lieder: Junge Leiden: Lieder, Nr.1
Date of composition: -
Nationality of composer: American
Language(s) of text: English with German in smaller print; English translation by composer
Tempo marking: Andantino con moto
Key: E major
Time signature: 2/4
No. of measures: 23
Approximate duration: 1 min., 15 sec.
Form: Varied strophic, with 2 strophes corresponding to poem
Vocal range: c-sharp to e' [c-sharp' to e"]
Vocal tessitura: other than favoring b in the middle range, the entire compass is used fairly evenly (Go to chart)
Vocal rhythms: mostly legato eighth-note motion
Vocal intervals: mostly steps and thirds; most phrases begin with descending octaves; final phrase wide-ranging and varied intervallically
Vocal comments: Should not present much challenge to even a minimally trained singer, except possibly keeping pitch and support steady through the wide-ranging and chromatic final phrase. Male singer (baritone or tenor with good low notes) more appropriate to text
Textual variants, etc.: -
Instrumental part(s): Piano part is very simple, moving in quarters and eighths, with a few sixteenth-notes, often doubling the voice in the right hand
Summary: A short, simple, unpretentiously pretty but surprisingly effective setting of this text, especially if not sung too slowly. 1890's parlor-ballad style with mild chromaticisms (Schumann with a hint of Puccini). (Go to analysis)