Poet: N/A
Source: Eight Folksong Arrangements
Date of Composition: 1976 (Apr. – Jun.)
Publication: Eight Folksong Arrangements
Voice Difficulty Level: Moderately Difficult
Subject: A love song for Lemady.
Range: B3 – F#5
Tessitura: F#4 – D#5
Tempo: Gay and lilting; 6/8
Duration: 01:22
Vocal Characteristics: Requires pitch and rhythmic independence; begins a capella; alternating time signatures; leaps of octaves and ninths;
Piano Difficulty Level: Difficult
Accompaniment Characteristics: Harp-like interjections of triplets and 32nd notes; chordal sections; rhythmically diverse; florid writing
Additional Comments: For harp and voice; transcribed for piano by Colin Matthews in Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements. *Words and melody from Journal of the folk song society, V/19 (June 1915), p. 175.
*From the Britten Thematic Catalog http://www.brittenproject.org/works/BTC1174