Poet: N/A
Source: Eight Folksong Arrangements
Date of Composition: 1976 (Apr. – Jun.)
Publication: Eight Folksong Arrangements
Voice Difficulty Level: Moderate
Subject: A description of the beauty of a lost love.
Range: E4 – G5
Tessitura: B4 – E5
Tempo: Flowing; 3/4
Duration: 01:54
Vocal Characteristics: Long, legato phrases; ascending phrases immediately descend; simple rhythms
Piano Difficulty Level: Moderate
Accompaniment Characteristics: Flowing eighth notes in inner voices; octave melodic line in right hand; octaves in left hand; chordal sections
Additional Comments: For harp and voice; transcribed for piano by Colin Matthews in Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements. *Words and melody from Folk songs from Newfoundland collected by Maud Karpeles (Faber & Faber, 1971), no. 83, p. 243.
*From the Britten Thematic Catalog http://www.brittenproject.org/works/BTC1173