PEACOCK PIE

PEACOCK PIE
20 Songs for Tenor and Piano
on Poems by Walter de la Mare

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E. C. Schirmer Music Company

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8589

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Description
“Peacock Pie” is a collection of 20 short songs based on Walter de la Mare’s book of childrens’ poetry first published in 1913. This is a song cycle of boys in childhood, fancifully portraying the pets, school experiences, tales of knights and horsemen, long summer days, and life’s lessons lived, learned, and loved while growing up – told with humor, affection, imagination, and courage.

Text
1 – The Horseman
2 – The Bandog
3 – The Sea Boy
4 – Jim Jay
5 – Cake and Sack
6 – The Huntsman
7 – Tired Tim
8 – The Dunce
9 – Poor Henry
10 – The Quartette
11 – Full Moon
12 – Summer Evening
13 – Five Eyes
14 – The Ruin
15 – All But Blind
16 – Will Ever?
17 – The Penny Owing
18 – The Horseman
19 – The Song of the Mad Prince
20 – The Song of ‘Finis’

Vocal Range C 4 : B-flat 5	Duration 26′ 00″
Vocal Tessitura G 4 : E 5

Year of Composition 1992	First Performance May 14, 1995 Yale University New Haven, Connecticut
	First Performers Christopher Walker, tenor Juliana Hall, piano