"What Do They Say? (Recitative and Patter Song)" [Udo Kasemets]

"What Do They Say? (Recitative and Patter Song)" [Udo Kasemets]

First line of lyrics: What does the donkey bray about?

Part of: "Five Songs for Children"

Kasemets, Udo; music (Estonian-Canadian, 1919-2014)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1964 [publication] [copyright]

Toronto: BMI Canada Limited

genre: children's music|song|song cycle

solo: voice

chorus: children's unison chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 2/4

origin: Canada

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'What does the donkey bray about?'"

Place in the larger work: The fourth of five songs in the song cycle "Five Songs for Children" which includes 1. "Eletelephony (Diatonic and Chromatic)" (Laura E. Richards); 2. "The Monkeys and the Crocodile (Major and Minor)" (Laura E. Richards); 3. "A Swing Song (Melody with Inversion and Canonic Imitations)" (William Allingham); 4. "What Do They Say? (Recitative and Patter Song)" (Christina Rossetti); 5. "Who has seen the wind? (Minor Mode" (Christina Rossetti).

Tempo markings: "With good humour"

Format 1: musical score

2 pages (pp. 12-13)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4883

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): "Udo Kasemets." Canadian Music Center, http://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?component=AF-Query-Composer&record=d6a1fee0-124b-40a2-acc5-33f302bc878d. Accessed 6 Jul 2020.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Canadian Music Center, www.musiccentre.ca/node/6490. Accessed 19 Mar 2018.

Record: CRM-whatdoesthedonkey-kasemets

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